Songoftheday 12/6/19 - Look around your world pretty baby is it everything you hoped it'd be...
from the album Twisted (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #10 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 26
Today's song of the day comes from the Scottish rock band Del Amitri, who had landed their second top-40 pop hit in the fall of 1992 with "Always The Last To Know". Three years later, the group returned with their fourth album Twisted. The first single from the set, "Here and Now", climbed to #21 on the British singles chart, followed by "Driving With The Brakes On", which made it to #18. It wasn't until the third release from the record that American radio took attention. "Roll To Me", an uptempo jangle pop nugget written by lead singer Justin Currie and produced by Al Clay, gave the foursome their biggest success in the States...
"Roll To Me" put Del Amitri into the pop top ten for the first and only time in November of 1995. The song also rose to #4 on Billboard magazine's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") chart, and hung around long enough to show on their Adult Top-40 format list at #8 the following year. Internationally, the single peaked at #5 in Canada, and peaked in the top-40 in the UK (#22), and intraEurope at #40 in Iceland. A fourth single from Twisted, "Tell Her This", got to #32 on the American rock chart.
In 1997, Del Amitri returned with Some Other Sucker's Parade, which would score the band's fourth consecutive UK top ten albums out of five tries. Main single "Not Where It's At" climbed to #21 in the UK, but was ignored in the states. A hits set Hatful Of Rain followed, which contained their World Cup hit "Don't Come Home Too Soon", one of their biggest hits at home at #15. The band's most recent album, Can You Do Me Good?, came in 2002, along with their most recent British hit "Just Before You Leave" (UK #37). Although they continue to tour, they haven't released any new material since.
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The group appeared on David Letterman to perform the song...
Here's the band live on German TV...
Up tomorrow: A former Maniac goes to the fair.
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