Songoftheday 2/22/20 - Seems like ever since the first day we met, there is no one else I think of more than you...
from the album Waiting To Exhale (Original Soundtrack) (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #2 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 29
Today's song of the day comes from singer/actress Brandy, whose self-titled debut album in 1994 was a massive success, spinning off three top ten pop hits with "I Wanna Be Down", "Baby", and "Brokenhearted", as well as a fourth top-40 pop hit in "Best Friend", with the first two topping Billboard magazine's R&B chart as well. The following year, Brandy recorded a song for a couple of movies that would become hits. The first would be for the Whitney Houston gal-pal film Waiting To Exhale, and it would be released as the soundtrack's second single after Whitney's #1 hit "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)". "Sittin' Up In My Room", written and produced by Babyface, was a classy yet youthful take on waiting on a lover, which in the music video is hunky Donald Faison who starred in the movie and would be eventually famous for the sitcom Scrubs years later. And damn, is this not the funkiest record Babyface has ever done?
"Sittin' Up In My Room" scored Brandy her fourth top-ten pop hit in March of 1996. The song also climbed all the way to #2 for three weeks on Billboard's R&B chart, and even popped on to their Adult Top-40 radio format list for a week at #38. Internationally, the single was her second to make the British top-40 at #30, went up to #6 in New Zealand, and reached the top-40 in Iceland (#23) and Canada (#31).
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Here's Brandy performing the song on Letterman...
and on the Soul Train Music Awards also in 1996...
A remix from Doug Rasheed that really transformed the song came with a cameo from LL Cool J...
and finally, another live shot...
Up tomorrow: Vocal soul group doesn't accept substitutes.
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