Songoftheday 6/2/19 - I'll have this feeling 'till the day that I die when I hear my baby calling, a simple motion a look in her eyes and I'm helplessly falling...
from the album Paid Vacation (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #20 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11
Today's song of the day comes from pop singer/songwriter Richard Marx, whose fourth studio album Paid Vacation had already scored him another top ten pop hits in America with "Now and Forever". While in a couple countries the song "Silent Scream" was put out as a second single, becoming a top-40 hit in Sweden at #32 and a minor hit in Germany at #79. Meanwhile, in America and most of the rest of the world, the uptempo love song "The Way She Loves Me" was put out to follow up "Now And Forever" instead. It became his most recent big success in the States...
"The Way She Loves Me" became Richard Marx's fourteenth and so far most recent top-40 pop hit in the U.S. in August of 1994. The song spent a week at #3 on the Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio format chart in Billboard magazine. Internationally, the single climbed all the way to #8 in Canada, and was a top-40 hit in the UK at #38 as well. The third single from Paid Vacation, the midtempo soft rock of "Nothing Left Behind Us", stalled out at #74 on the pop chart, while just missing the Adult Contemporary top ten at #11, but doing the trick on the Canadian singles chart at #10.
In 1997, Richard returned with his Flesh and Bone album, his final studio work with Capitol Records. The lead single, "Until I Find You Again", spent a week at #3 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart, but stopped short of the pop Hot 100 top-40 at #42. The following year after a Greatest Hits record, he left the label. However at that same time, he collaborated with Welsh singer Donna Lewis for a song from the animated movie Anastacia, "At The Beginning", that while again hovering below the pop top-40 at #45, was a huge hit on "easy listening" radio, spending five weeks at #2 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
Marx's first independently-released album Days In Avalon arrived in 2000, and from it the title track "Days In Avalon" went to #25 on the Adult Contemporary list. Four years later, moving to the semi-major Manhattan branch of EMI, Marx released My Own Best Enemy. The lead single "When You're Gone" became his first hit on the Adult Top-40 format chart, climbing to #20, while "Ready To Fly" hit #29 on that tally, while rising to #22 on the Adult Contemporary list. Since then, Richard has put out four more indie studio albums, with his most recent, Beautiful Goodbye, landing at #39 on the album chart in 2014. It contains the single "Whatever We Started", which got to #29 on the Adult Contempoary chart. Also, his version of "Little Drummer Boy" from his Christmas Spirit holiday set went to #7 on that list as well in 2012.
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Here's Richard performing the song on his The Live Version concert in 1993...
Next up from his A Night Out With Friends live album/DVD in 2012...
And finally, live in concert in Chile from 2018...
Up tomorrow: Country newcomer proclaims his vice.
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