Songoftheday 5/29/19 - When can my heart beat again? When does the pain ever end? When do the tears stop from running over? When does "you'll get over it" begin?
from the album For The Cool In You (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #4 (five weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 30
Today's song of the day comes from singer/songwriter/producer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, whose third studio album For The Cool In You had already spun off a pair of top-40 pop hits with "And Our Feelings" and "Never Keeping Secrets", along with a top ten R&B hit as the lead single with "For The Cool In You". Also, two album tracks reached the R&B airplay chart in Billboard magazine in "Lady, Lady" (#68) and "Rock Bottom" (#71), with the latter becoming only his second charting single in the UK at #50. The fourth and final physical release in America from the record would be the ballad "When Can I See You". Written by Babyface, who produced the single with "L.A." Reid and Daryl Simmons, the sparse and emotional breakup tune ended up landing the singer his highest-charting pop hit of his career in America, still to this day...
"When Can I See You" became Babyface's sole top-5 pop hit as an recording artist in September of 1994. The song also climbed to #6 on Billboard's R&B chart, while making it to #10 on their Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio format list. Internationally, the song peaked at #9 in New Zealand, and went to #16 in Canada, #31 in Australia, and #35 in the UK. At the 1995 Grammy Awards, "When Can I See You" won for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.
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Here's Babyface live in concert in 2015...
and lastly, at the Kennedy Center with an orchestra in 2018...
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