Songoftheday 2/21/20 - It doesn't matter what I say, so long as I sing with inflection...
from the album four (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #23 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 18
Today's song of the day comes from the jam band from New Jersey, Blues Traveler, who broke through big on mainstream pop radio in the summer of 1995 with their top ten hit "Run-Around". For their follow-up single the band chose the mid-tempo reflection on pop music and the business they were in with "Hook". Written by lead singer/harmonica player John Popper, the song cribs Pachobel's "Canon in D" piece to drive the proverbial "hook" in the song, while singing about how most pop music is just jumbled up words around a melody that will not leave you. Genius. The late MTV host Ken Ober again stars in the video for the song...
"Hook" became Blues Traveler's second top 40 pop hit in March of 1996, and their final "official" one on Billboard's Hot 100 chart (they would have one more top-40 airplay hit, a future SOTD). The song reached the top-20 on both the Mainstream (#15) and Alternative (#13) rock radio charts in Billboard. It also crossed over to their Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") format chart at #28, and the Adult Top-40 list at #22.
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Blues Traveler went on Letterman to promote the single...
Here's the band in 1996 performing at Howard Stern's birthday party...
And live in concert the following year in California...
And lastly, at a record store gig in 2015...
Up tomorrow: Moesha is having some alone time.
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