Songoftheday 3/10/19 - You don't even know me you just wanna do what you wanna do, that's not the way it should be...
from the album Hummin' Comin' At Cha (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #8 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 14
Today's song of the day comes from the R&B vocal group Xscape, who had landed their first top ten hit and biggest success of their career with the mid-tempo new jack swing jam "Just Kickin' It" in the fall of 1993. The quartet's second single would be the ballad "Understanding", written by Manuel Seal, who also produced the track. It talks about how a relationship is doomed without communication and respect between the two parties involved, and that sentiment rang true with many...
"Understanding" became Xscape's second top ten pop hit in February of 1994. The song spent two weeks at #1 on the R&B chart in Billboard magazine. Internationally, the single reached the top-40 in New Zealand at #24. Around the same time "Understanding" was gaining its biggest numbers, album track "If My Living In Vain" got enough airplay on urban stations to place at #47 on their R&B airplay chart. The third physical single put out, "Love On My Mind", climbed to #16 on the R&B list, while nearly missing the pop top-40 at #46. Finally, "Tonight" served as the fourth release, and while it missed the pop Hot 100, it managed to climb to #59 on the R&B list.
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Here's the group performing "Understanding" on a TV appearance in 1994...
Next up is the foursome at the Essence Awards in 1994...
and lastly, live in concert in 2017...
Up tomorrow: Philly Boyz wants some frozen precipitation.
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