Songoftheday 4/20/20 - Don't matter who knows I don't care who sees me, and thinking about you makes my life complete...
from the album Total (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #12 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 19
Today's song of the day comes from the female R&B vocal group Total, who had already scored a pair of top-40 pop hits/top ten R&B hits from their self-titled debut album with "No One Else" and "Can't You See" with Notorious B.I.G.. Another cut from the album, "Do You Know", got enough radio attention to place on Billboard magazine's R&B Airplay chart at #62 in the spring of 1996 as well. The third official single to be released from the record would be the laid-back G-funk inspired "Kissin' You". Produced by Raphael Saadiq from Tony Toni Tone, who co-wrote the track with Julian Jackson, Janice Johnson, and Brian James, the smooth love song became the highest-charting hit from the record...
"Kissin' You" became Total's third top-40 pop hit in July of 1996. The song also landed their third top ten R&B single in Billboard, peaking at #6. Internationally, the single was a top-40 hit in the UK (#29) and New Zealand (#31). The final single release had two songs that got radio airplay; first "Do You Think About Us" made it to #61 on the pop Hot 100 and #20 at R&B (while also placing on the British chart at #49), while "When Boy Meets Girl" did better with mainstream stations with its interpolation of the Bee Gees "Love You Inside Out", going to #51 on the Hot 100 and #28 at R&B. The Total album eventually reached platinum (over a million sold) and made the top-40 at #23.
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A separate remix that completely revamped the vibe of the song and featured Puff Daddy, titled "Kissin' You/Oh Honey", was on the single and had its own video...
Here's Kima, Keisha, and Pam performing live in Japan in 1996...
Up tomorrow: Irish alt-rockers need some atonement.
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