Songoftheday 8/17/19 - If he loved you like I love you I would walk away in shame, I'd move town I'd change my name...
from the album Fields Of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994 (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #38 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 1
Today's song of the day comes from singer/bassist/songwriter and former Police frontman Sting, who had landed his sole solo-billed #1 hit with his collaboration with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, "All For Love", in the beginning of 1994. Sting finished that same year with a collection of his solo hits to that point, Fields Of Gold, named for the top-40 hit he had from his previous album Ten Summoner's Tales in the summer of 1993. Along with a dozen of his most popular solo songs, there were two new selections unreleased until the set. Both were released as singles. The first, "When We Dance", was a muted but classy piece that just relies on the song and no new gadgets...
"When We Dance" returned Sting to the American pop top-40 in December of 1994. The song also climbed to #12 on the Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart in Billboard magazine. Internationally, the single peaked at #9 in the UK as well as Ireland, topped out at #10 in Canada, and was a top-40 hit in the Netherlands (#32), Sweden (#34), and Belgium (#35). Sting was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1996 for "When We Dance" in the Best Male Pop Vocal category, losing to Seal for his sublime "Kiss From A Rose".
The second new song from Fields Of Gold, the more upbeat "This Cowboy Song", missed any of the American radio charts, but got to #15 in the UK, #19 in Ireland, and #34 in Canada.
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Here he is promoting the single on European TV in 1994...
And on MTV Unplugged in 1994...
Next up in Italy in 2001...
And lastly, in concert in 2011...
Up tomorrow: Post grunge aeronauts travel cross-country?
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