Songoftheday 3/4/20 - I know you're home you left your light on, you know I'm here the night is thin...
from the album Your Little Secret (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #22 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13
Today's song of the day comes from rock singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge, who by 1995 was coming off the biggest album of her career, Yes I Am, which spun off three top-40 pop hits with "Come To My Window", "If I Wanted To", and the top ten classic "I'm The Only One". At the end of the year Melissa released her fifth studio album, titled Your Little Secret as another wink and a hat-tip to her coming out of the closet a couple years prior. The title track and lead single "Your Little Secret" was promoted to radio without being released commercially, nevertheless nearly making the pop airplay top 40 chart in the fall of 1995, goosing up sales for the album, her highest-charting ever at #6. The second release from the album and first physical single would be the mid-tempo crunch-guitar rock of "I Want To Come Over". Written by Etheridge who produced the track with Hugh Padgham, the song followed the same wanting lover theme that her previous hits rode down, and radio in turn responded favorably. MTV did as well, from a video featuring Gwyneth Paltrow pre-GOOP...
"I Want To Come Over" became Melissa's fourth top-40 pop hit in March of 1996. The song also climbed to #22 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, and got to #5 on the Triple-A (Adult Album Alternative, or "hipster rock" chart. It also crossed over on "easy listening" radio, going to #9 at the Adult Top-40 format and #17 on Adult Contemporary. Internationally, the single went all the way to #1 in Canada for one week, and made the top-40 in Australia (#29), New Zealand (#29), and Iceland (#35). In the UK, it spent a solitary week at the bottom of the chart at #100, matching her only other appearance in 1989 with "Bring Me Some Water".
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Here's Melissa on MTV Latin America in 1996...
and from her Live and Alone show in 2001...
Lastly another concert TV gig...
Up tomorrow: This singer doesn't want tears.
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