Songoftheday 3/12/20 - Last night I slept alone I stayed at home, for the first time since you've been gone babe...
from the album Deborah Cox (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #17 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 12
Today's song of the day comes from Canadian soul/dance music singer Deborah Cox, whose debut single "Sentimental" scored her a top-40 pop/top-5 R&B hit in the fall of 1995. Although that single did contain remixes of the hit and went to #33 on Billboard magazine's dance chart, it would be her follow-up that would be Deborah's big intro to the clubs. "Who Do U Love", written by producers Vassal Benford and Larry Campbell, a sassy new-jack redux about an absent and inattentive lover featured a chorus that just grabs you by the throat...
"Who Do You Love" became Cox's second top-40 pop hit in May of 1996. The song also climbed to #12 on Billboard's R&B chart. But it's biggest success was the "house music" remixes of the single, which drove it to #1for a week to be her first chart-topper on the Dance Club Play list. Internationally, the single went to #2 in New Zealand, and hit the top-40 in Australia (#11), Canada (#15), and the UK (#31). A third single from the set, the ballad "Where Do We Go From Here", hit #28 on the American R&B chart, while missing the pop top-40 at #48 (it was a top-40 hit in Canada at #37 and in New Zealand at #20). That was followed by "The Sound Of My Tears", which scraped the pop Hot 100 at #97 and hit the halfway mark on the R&B chart at #51. Lastly, a cover of the S.O.S. Band's club track "Just Be Good To Me" was serviced to DJ's, and got to #8 on Billboard's Dance Club Play list.
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Here's Deborah performing the song live to track on Video Soul.....
Now here is the house music remix done by David Morales that way outshined the original...
And finally, Cox in concert in Maryland in 2019...
Up tomorrow: Neo-soul singer speaks about his squeeze.
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