Songoftheday 2/20/19 - Tryin' to find the faith before the fall, good man's down while a bad man's standin tall...
from the album Time and Chance (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #23 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 9
Today's song of the day comes from the soul/pop vocal group Color Me Badd, who after spinning off five top-20 pop hits from their debut album, knocked off a sixth with "Forever Love" from the soundtrack to Mo' Money in the fall of 1992. But despite that track also being accompanied by a remix album, Young, Gifted, and Badd, it took a full year from that last single for them to reemerge with their sophomore effort Time and Chance. With 17 tracks squeezed in to less than an hour's time, it was an attempt to evolve their sound, using a myriad of producers and styles in the attempt to color them darker than the bright sunny pop of their debut's hits. The title track and lead single, "Time and Chance", was written by the group's Bryan Abrams, Mark Calderon, Kevin Thornton, and Sam Watters along with underground rapper DJ Pooh and Christian soul artist Marc Denard. Rapper Ice Cube directed the music video, which tried to at least give a bit of street cred to the single, finding the band arrested after being planted with drugs. And you know, the sound is the most refined of all their hits to me personally, with all four voices given a lead spot in the track...
"Time And Chance" became Color Me Badd's seventh top-40 pop hit, but first to miss the top-20, in December of 1993. The song did much better in urban markets, climbing to #3 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart. Internationally, the single was a minor hit in Canada (#58) and the UK (#62).
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Here's the group appearing on Arsenio Hall...
Up tomorrow: A fruitful band is wafting through the radio...
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