Songoftheday 6/20/19 - You're the kind when you love you love with all your might, and you're the kind I would dream about at night...
from the album House Of Love (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #18 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11
Today's song of the day comes from Christian singer turned pop star Amy Grant, whose secular breakthrough album Heart In Motion in 1991 had sold millions and spun off five big pop hits with "I Will Remember You", "Good For Me", "That's What Love Is For", "Every Heartbeat" and the #1 Hot 100 single "Baby Baby". She followed that record up at the end of 1992 with Home For Christmas, a seasonal set that went to #2 on the albums sales charts and has sold over three million copies, one of the biggest holiday albums in the rock era. Grant returned with another secular pop album two years later, with the release of House Of Love. The lead single from the set was a mid-tempo soft-pop love song called "Lucky One". Written by Amy with her producer, Keith Thomas, it was assumed that it was meant for her husband Gary Chapman, but that would eventually be overturned. By the way her phrasing on the verses of this song remind me of British new wavers Scritti Politti...
"Lucky One" returned Grant to the American pop Top-40 in October of 1994. The song was an especially big hit on "easy listening" radio, spending a week at #2 on Billboard magazine's Adult Contemporary chart. Internationally, the single peaked at #4 in Canada, and was a minor hit in Germany (#56) and the UK (#60).
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Here's Amy performing the song live (to track) on Japanese TV in 1994...
And in concert...
And finally, another concert featuring her second husband Vince Gill and her daughter...
Up tomorrow: Rap newcomer delivers some tasty rhymes.
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