Robbed hit 6/17/19 - the Spin Doctors' "You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast"...

"You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast" - Spin Doctors
from the album Turn It Upside Down (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #42

This week's "robbed hit" comes from the funky alternative band Spin Doctors, who had found themselves A-level rockstars by 1993 thanks to their debut album Pocket Full of Kryptonite, which landed them a top-20 pop hit with "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong", and then they topped that with the unstoppable "Two Princes". And when I say "unstoppable", i mean it dominated airwaves so much that even beyond its 22 weeks in the top-40, it remains on radio playlists for months afterwards (relegated to the "recurrent airplay chart" in Billboard). What this meant was that song's popularity and presence stifled any other single from their debut. And when their second album Turn It Upside Down was released in the summer of 1994, it was still the case, and first single "Cleopatra's Cat" stalled all the way down at #84 on the pop Hot 100, and even stopped at #22 on the Mainstream Rock radio chart, although the track hit the top 40 in the UK at #29. However, that may be explained off by the darker tone of the song and looser jazz-styled production of the track (as well as lyrics in Latin, I suppose). But it also affected the more radio-friendly second single, "You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast". Written by the band who produced it with Peter Denenberg, the song had an affable flow that harkened back to their debut in its conversational context...

While "You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast" got more love from rock radio, climbing to #8 on the Mainstream Rock radio chart, the song stalled right under the pop Top-40 in August of 1994. And I really attribute the continued airplay of "Two Princes" at the time to the muted reaction to this worthy contender. In Canada, where "Cleopatra's Cat" only got to #59, this song did much better, peaking at #12, while in the UK, it was a minor hit at #66 after hemp-infused single "Mary Jane" went to #55 there. And sadly, with the album stopping at #28, they would never recover their momentum, but hopefully are continuing to live of the revenue of "Two Princes".

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And here's the Spin Doctors at Farm Aid in 1994...

At least the song got enough notice for the New Mickey Mouse Club (with a young JC Chasez pre N-Sync) to cover it...

And finally, back to the doctors on Howard Stern...