Songoftheday 1/4/20 - So you're scared to show your feelings baby I do understand, well I don't make a promise I can't keep and I vow to be a real good friend...
from the album Home (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #29 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10
Today's song of the day comes from the soul/pop vocal band Blessid Union of Souls, who landed a top ten pop hit in America in their first go with their ballad "Believe" in the spring of 1995. The group released the mid-tempo song "Let Me Be The One" as a follow-up. Written by the band's Eliot Sloan and Jeff Pence along with Matt Senatore, the pleasant single was a big hit in adult-pop radio...
"Let Me Be The One" became the band's second top-40 pop hit in the U.S. in October of 1995. The song rose to #24 on Billboard magazine's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") chart. Internationally, the single was a minor hit in Canada (#48) and the UK (#74).
The third song promoted to radio from the album was "Oh Virginia", but while it rose to #54 on Billboard's Hot 100 Airplay chart, it wasn't eligible to place on the official pop list since it wasn't released as a commercial single. Meanwhile, it made both the Adult Contemporary (#30) and the newly made Adult Top-40 (#27) radio format charts (it did much better in Canada, rising to #16). Finally, the ballad "All Along" was released as the third commercial single. My favorite among the four, it went to #70 on the pop chart, and hit #27 on the Adult Contemporary list.
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And here's the band appearing on Conan O'Brien...
Up tomorrow: Today's chart-topper was also at #1 25 years ago with this hallucination.
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