Songoftheday 3/31/19 - I've got the stuff that you want I've got the thing that you need, I've got more than enough to make you drop to your knees...
from the album The Bodyguard (Original Soundtrack) (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: did not chart (no single released)
Billboard Hot 100 Airplay peak: #36 (one week)
Weeks in the Hot 100 Airplay Top-40: 1
Today's song of the day is from Whitney Houston, whose starring turn in the movie The Bodyguard movie had also provided her with her biggest album success with the soundtrack, which generated four top-40 pop singles in America with "Run To You", "I Have Nothing", "I'm Every Woman", and the #1 record-breaking smash "I Will Always Love You". Instead of releasing a fifth single in the States (to goose the sales of the album), the record company Arista promoted the album track "Queen Of The Night" to radio, with dance remixes on promos going to clubs and dance music stations. Written by Whitney with producers Babyface and L.A. Reid along with Daryl Simmons, the song was sassy but a little slight compared to the other blockbusters, and quite a bit like En Vogue's "Free Your Mind" (cough, cough), but an uptempo number from her is just what we needed at the time...
While "Queen Of The Night" wasn't able to chart on Billboard magazine's pop Hot 100 because it wasn't released commercially as a single, the song nevertheless reached the airplay component of the chart in February of 1994, eventually spending twenty weeks on the entire list. The song also climbed to #47 on the R&B Airplay chart as well. The house music-style remixes, however, were huge in the clubs, allowing the song to go to #1 on the Dance Club Play tally for a week. Internationally, where the song did get released as a single, it reached the top-40 in Portugal (#7), the UK (#14), Iceland (#18), Belgium (#20), the Netherlands (#21), Ireland (#26), and Switzerland (#36).
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Here's the CJ Mackintosh house remix that helped the song top the dance chart...
Whitney used that remix arrangement when she performed live, like at this concert in South Africa in 1994...
But at the Soul Train Music Awards it was the new jack-ish original she jammed to, along with "I'm Every Woman" as well...
Up tomorrow: Florida rocker takes a twirl with the devil's lettuce.
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