Songoftheday 10/23/19 -Don't even like to think about it I don't now what I would do without it, I only know I live and breath for your love...
from the albums Bad Boys (Original Soundtrack) and Bonafide (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #10 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 22
Today's song of the day comes from soul/pop singer Jon B (for Buck), who grew up in southern California with a classical musical family. Signed 1992 at first as a songwriter, Jon ended up scoring a song on the soundtrack to the soon-to-be franchise blockbuster movie Bad Boys starring Will Smith and Martin Laurence. "Someone To Love", featuring producer Babyface, who also wrote the track and sings as a featured guest on the record, would also be released as a single after Diana King's "Shy Guy" (yesterday's SOTD) and singer Keith Martin's "Never Find Someone Like You", which went to #42 R&B and #53 pop in America. It would also serve as the lead-in single to his debut album Bonafide, released a month later...
"Someone To Love" became Jon B.'s breakthrough hit, reaching the top ten on the American pop chart in August of 1995. The song also climbed to #7 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart, and made it to #32 on their Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio format tally. Internationally, the single was a top-40 hit in New Zealand at #17, reached #50 in Australia, and slipped on to the British singles chart down at #98. At the 1996 Grammy Awards, "Someone To Love" was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Collaboration, which was won by the Chieftains and Van Morrison's remake of "Have I Told You Lately".
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Here's Jon B and Babyface performing "Someone To Love" on The Tonight Show in 1995...
Fast forward to 2010 with Jon B in concert in Los Angeles...
And finally, from a DC show in 2015...
Up tomorrow: British new wave troubadour thinks things are fantastic.
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