Songoftheday 9/9/19 - You go hide and I will seek, let me be the one to make you weak...
from the album Good Times (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #15 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 14
Today's song of the day comes from the R&B vocal group Subway, who came together in Chicago in the early 1990s. With two brothers, Trerail Puckett and Keith Thomas, along with friends Roy Jones and Eric McNeal, the foursome was mentored by Michael Bivins of New Edition/Bell Biv Devoe fame. Signing to his vanity label Biv 10 on Motown Records, the group released their first single, "This Lil' Game We Play", in the fall of 1994. The downtempo slow jam featuring female vocal trio 702, who makes their debut on this record as well, which done as duet, emphasizes the women equally (good choice, because in the end 702 became the bigger act)...
"This Lil' Game We Play" became Subway's first and only top-40 pop hit in April of 1995. The song was a big hit at urban radio, climbing to #4 on the R&B chart in Billboard magazine, and spending a half year (26 weeks) on the list. The group's follow-up single, "Fire", did make the R&B top-40 at #34, taking a healthy 20 weeks on the chart, but stalled down at #91 on the pop Hot 100. A third single from their debut (and only) album Good Times, "This Is Not A Goodbye", slipped on to the R&B chart at #85. After a soundtrack single for the Shaquille O'Neal movie Kazaam, "I'll Make Your Dreams Come True", went to #64 on the R&B chart, the group split. As for 702, they were just starting, and in a year or so they would hit the top ten on the pop chart with "Get It Together".
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Here's Subway and 702 making an appearance on Soul Train...
Up tomorrow: Future wedding couple proclaims their residence.
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