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"The Earth, The Sun, The Rain" - Color Me Badd
from the album Now & Forever (1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #21 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 19

Today's song of the day comes from the R&B/pop vocal group Color Me Badd. Their sophomore effort Time and Chance had not reached the heights of their debut, but it was a solid evolution of their sound that still spun off two top-40 pop hits with "Time And Chance" and "Choose", the latter at the start of 1994. Two years later, the foursome of Bryan Abrams, Mark Calderon, Kevin Thornton and Sam Watters returned with their third disc Now & Forever. The lead single was the asipiring "The Earth, The Sun, The Rain", written by Stacey Piersa along with producer Eliott Wolff (Paula Abdul and such). The simple love ballad wasn't groundbreaking, but it was certainly wedding reception-ready...

"The Earth, The Sun, The Rain" became Color Me Badd's ninth and final top-40 pop hit in June of 1996. The song also climbed to #27 on Billboard magazine's Adult Top-40 radio chart, and got as high as #69 on their R&B list. Internationally, the song climbed to #12 in Canada, made the top-40 in New Zealand at #30, and was a minor hit in Germany at #69. A second single from the record, "Sexual Capacity", was written and produced by Robin Thicke who was 19 at the time. An attempt to recapture the energy of their debut album, despite being used in the movie Striptease with Demi Moore, it missed the pop chart, "bubbling under" the Hot 100 at #121. The Now & Forever album made the top-40 on the R&B Albums chart at #39, while peaking at #113 on the main Top 200 Albums sales list.

In 1998, moving to Epic Records, the group released their fourth and so far final album Awakening. The lead single, "Remember When", was a minor pop hit, going to #48 in America. Since then, the group has continued on in some form, mostly involving Abrams and Calderon, who infamous got into it on stage (well Abrams attacked Calderon) in 2019.

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Here's the boys performing the song for a TV appearance...

and finally, in concert in 2011...

Up tomorrow: Soul singer is addressing.