Songoftheday 2/23/19 - I never meant to lie to you but I needed me an easy way out, I couldn't face the truth with you because I didn't want to lose my clout...
from the album For The Cool In You (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #15 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 16
Today's song of the day comes from singer/songwriter/producer Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, who had followed up his breakthrough album Tender Lover, which spun off four top-40 pop hits, with another one from the soundtrack to Boomerang, the duet "Give U My Heart" with Toni Braxton in the fall of 1992. That following year, he returned in the summer with his third solo offering For The Cool In You. The smooth and jazzy title track was released as the first single, but even though "For The Cool In You" reached #10 on the R&B chart in Billboard magazine and eventually nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Male Vocal (losing out to Ray Charles' "A Song For You"), the song tanked all the way down at #81 on the pop Hot 100. However he turned things around with the second release from the set, the ballad "Never Keeping Secrets". Written by Babyface, who produced the track with normal partners L.A. Reid and Daryl Simmons, the pleading relationship song was a real, sweet take on love...
"Never Keeping Secrets" returned Babyface to the American pop top forty in January of 1994. The song spent three weeks at #3 on Billboard's R&B chart as well.
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Here's Babyface performing live on a TV appearance promoting the single...
And again at an awards show that same year...
Lastly, the singer live at a benefit concert in 2002...
Up tomorrow: Piano man's final top-40 has an R&B fetish.
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