Songoftheday 2/7/19 - I'm thinking about you the last time we made love, and I fantasize so many things that I dream of...
from the album Intro (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #33 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 5
Today's song of the day comes from the R&B vocal group Intro, who came together in Brooklyn in the mid-1980s under lead singer Kenny Greene. Greene, who penned Mary J. Blige's single "Reminisce", was able to get his trio with Buddy Wike and Jeff Sanders with his songwriting background, and they released their self-titled debut album in 1993. Their debut single, "Love Thang!!!" (yes, with the multiple exclamation marks), was a standard new jack swing fare that scored them their first top-40 R&B hit in Billboard magazine, reaching #28, while "bubbling under" the pop Hot 100 at #111. That was followed by "Let Me Be The One", which had a much smoother production but still was firmly in the new jack lane, and that one also made the R&B top-40 at #23, and "bubbled under" the pop chart at #112. With the group's third release, the slow jam ballad would become their biggest success. "Come Inside", written by Greene and Wike along with producer Nevelle Hodge, was a downtempo seductive track that had the trio sing alongside an uncredited female...
"Come Inside" became Intro's first and only top-40 pop hit in October of 1993. The song climbed all the way to #9 on Billboard's R&B chart, their sole top ten success on urban radio. The fourth and final release from their debut album, a cover of Stevie Wonder's ballad "Ribbon In The Sky", went to #11 on the R&B list and again "bubbled under" the pop chart at #105. Later the next year, the trio contributed to producer Eddie F's Let's Get It On album (which contains the sole true collaboration between 2Pac and the Notorious B.I.G.). The result, the sparse soul of "Never Again", was a minor R&B hit at #60.
Intro returned in 1995 with their second and final album, New Life. The lead single, "Funny How Time Flies", was a midtempo jam that sounded like Blige's productions, and brought them back to the R&B top-40 at #25, while scoring their second and last pop hit at #90. A follow-up release, the ballad "Feels Like The First Time", was the group's last charting R&B hit at #52. Greene continued to write for other artists, but the singer, who had revealed his bisexuality in 2001, died from AIDS that same year. Wike and Sanders regrouped in 2012 with Eric Pruitt, releasing a few indie singles.
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Here's the trio performing on Live At The Apollo...
And lastly, singing live to track for another TV appearance...
Up tomorrow: Grammy-winning soul singer is inhaling anew.
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