Songoftheday 5/29/20 - You leave without a word no message no number, and now my head is pounding like rolling thunder...

"Where Do You Go" - No Mercy
from the album No Mercy (US) and My Promise (worldwide) (both 1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #5 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 34

Today's song of the day comes from the pop/dance act No Mercy, who were three Americans put together in Germany by producer Frank Farian (yes, that Frank Farian of Milli Vanilli fame, so who really knows if these guys sang). Brothers Ariel and Gabriel Hernández and Marty Cintron were brought over to record an album for the label Hansa. Their first single released in Europe was a cover of Everything But The Girl's #1 pop hit "Missing", which peaked at #9 in Switzerland and #19 in Germany. On the heels of that success they released their debut album My Promise which included that song, while in America their set was just titled No Mercy and it was missing "Missing". For the States, the lead single (and second single elsewhere) would be another cover, but this time of an album track for fellow Eurodance peers La Bouche. "Where Do You Go", Written by Farian with Peter Bischof, straddled the line between Latin freestyle and Eurodance, which gave it an added charm to American audiences, who flocked to the song and made it their first and biggest hit...

"Where Do You Go" became the trio's biggest hit, reaching the top-5 on the American pop chart in October of 1996. The song also climbed to #16 on Billboard magazine's Adult Top-40 radio list, spending a half year (26 weeks) on the chart, but surprisingly didn't even make their Dance Club Play chart. Internationally, the single topped the chart in Ireland and Denmark, and made the top ten in the UK (#2), Australia (#2), Hungary (#2), Germany (#3), France (#4), Switzerland (#4), Austria (#5), Belgium (#5W/#32F), Sweden (#6), Italy (#9), and the Netherlands (#10). In Canada, the song stalled just under the top-40 at #43.

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This is the original version of the song as recorded by the dance act La Bouche (of "Be My Lover" fame)...