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"You Bring Me Up" - K-Ci & JoJo

from the album Love Always (1997)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #26 (three weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 8

 

Today's song of the day comes from the R&B brother duo K-Ci & JoJo, who had dominated the early 1990s urban radio scene as one half of the vocal group Jodeci. In the spring of 1995, K-Ci released a cover of Bobby Womack's "If You Think You're Lonely Now" from the movie Jason's Lyric that reached the pop and R&B top-20. Their first record together apart from the band was another soundtrack cut, the ballad "How Could You" from Bulletproof, which got to #16 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart but stalled halfway down there pop Hot 100 at #53. But the siblings got major exposure later singing the chorus on rapper 2Pac's #1 hit single "How Do U Want It". "How Could You" would eventually appear on their first album Love Always. But the lead-in single would be the equally pessimistic "You Bring Me Up". Written by the brothers and produced by Gerald Baillergeau and Victor Merritt, the midtempo low-key funk jam about a love that put them on a roller coaster moved them just enough past their Jodeci work to set them apart...

 

"You Bring Me Up" became K-Ci and JoJo's first lead artist top-40 pop hit apart from Jodeci in June of 1997. The single climbed as high as #7 on Billboard's R&B chart as well. Internationally, the song was a top-40 success in New Zealand (#15) and the UK (#21). The Love Always album went to #6 on the Billboard 200 sales chart (and #2 on the R&B list), eventually selling over three million copies.

 

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There was a G-funk styled remix made with rapper Snoop Dogg for the urban radio market, which its own video cut as well...

 

 And a clip of the brothers live in concert in 2011...

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