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"This Is A Call" - Foo Fighters
from the album Foo Fighters (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: Ineligible to chart
Billboard Hot 100 Airplay peak: #35 (one week)
Weeks in the Hot 100 Airplay Top-40: 6

Today's song of the day comes from Foo Fighters, which originally was the moniker used by Dave Grohl after Nirvana dissolved after the death of Kurt Cobain. As a one-man "band" where he played all the instruments, Grohl had been assembling material in the years following Kurt's death, while radio was still mourning the band, sending their live cover of "The Man Who Sold The World" into the pop airplay top-40 in the spring of 1993. After recording an album's worth of songs almost all by himself (save for one guitar cameo), Grohl released Foo Fighters on July 4th of 1995. A couple weeks prior to that his first song promoted to radio, "This Is A Call", entered the charts, and while it was unable to place on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 because it wasn't released commercially as a "single", the track got enough mainstream airplay to make the top-40 on the radio component of the official American pop chart. Since it was all put together by Dave without a band (yet), no official video was made...

"This Is A Call" spent six weeks in the Hot 100 Airplay top-40 in July of 1995. The song spent two weeks at #2 on Billboard's Alternative Rock radio list, while it rose to #6 on their Mainstream Rock format chart. Internationally, the single made the top ten in the UK (#5) and Australia (#9), and reached the top 40 in New Zealand (#11), Iceland (#14), Ireland (#16), Canada (#29), and the Netherlands (#32).

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On the success of the single, Grohl put together a band to play on Letterman, including Pat Smear, Nate Mandel, and William Goldsmith...