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"Breakfast At Tiffany's" - Deep Blue Something
from the album Home (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #5 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 26

Today's song of the day comes from the alternative rock band Deep Blue Something, who came together under siblings Toby and Todd Pipes in Texas in the early 1990s. With drummer John Kirtland, they released their debut album 11th Song independently in 1993. The band then signed to Interscope, where they recorded their sophomore disc Home which came out in 1995. A song from 11th Song was redone for the Home disc with new guitarist Kirk Tatom, and was released as the lead single. "Breakfast At Tiffany's", written by Todd Pipes, and produced by David Castell (who would go on to produce for Blue October), the jangle-pop nugget had its protagonist struggle to find a reason his girlfriend shouldn't break up with him, eventually settling on the familiarity of this one film to "justify their love". In the music video, the band meet up with an Audrey Hepburn lookalike for "breakies" at the titular store...

"Breakfast At Tiffany's" became Deep Blue Something's first and only pop hit on the Hot 100 in America, reaching the top-five in January of 1996 (making them a true "one-hit wonder"). The song also peaked at #3 on Billboard magazine's Adult Top-40 chart, while going to #8 on their Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") list. The hit even crossed over to the rock radio lists, making it to #18 on the Triple-A (Album Adult Alternative) and #30 on the Alternative format tallies. For an indie-rock hit, "Breakfast At Tiffany's" was a surprising international hit (probably because of the universality of the titular film). It topped the British singles chart for a week, and reached the top ten in Australia (#3), Ireland (#3), Iceland (#3),Canada (#4), Germany (#6), Belgium (#7), and Sweden (#9).

A second song released as a single, "Halo", failed to get noticed much, only managing to "bubble under" the pop Hot 100 in America at #102. But another song from the disc, "Josey", because a surprise hit in the UK, scoring a top-40 success at #27. It's a really solid album, and worth a second look.

After the success of Home, which as an album did consistent sales worldwide, Tatom decided to leave the band with original pre-fame guitarist Clay Bergus returning to the lineup, while the band itself was fighting a lawsuit involving the indie debut album and this song. In that turmoil, Interscope held up their next album Byzantium until 1998, but by their any momentum the group had was lost. A self-titled indie-distributed album was released in 2001 to little notice, and the band went on to different things. In 2015, they released an EP called Locust House, to date their most recent work.

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The band made their American TV debut on Conan O'Brien in 1996...