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"A Change Would Do You Good" - Sheryl Crow

from the album Sheryl Crow (1996)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: ineligible to chart

Billboard Hot 100 airplay peak: #19 (one week)

Weeks in the Airplay Top-40: 17

 

Today's song of the day comes from Sheryl Crow, whose self-titled second album had already spun off a pair of top-20 pop hits with "If It Makes You Happy" and "Everyday Is A Winding Road", the latter in the spring of 1997. During that time, Crow released the track "Hard To Make A Stand" as a single internationally but not in the U.S., fearing a backlash over its frank reference about abortion rights, religion, and zealot violence. Nevertheless, the song reached the top-40 in Canada (#15) and the UK (#22). The third song in the States promoted to radio was the snarky "A Change Would Do You Good". Produced by Crow, who wrote the track with Bryan MacLeod and Jeff Trott, the track has her with a Beatles-esque voice-mike affectation as she rolls through a whole stream of consciousness that apparently were side-jokes about people Crow and her band knew, as well as Crow herself...

Since "A Change Would Do You Good" wasn't released as a physical commercial single, it was unable to place on Billboard magazine's official Hot 100 pop chart in America. However, the song got enough radio love to reach the top-20 on the airplay component of that tally in July of 1997. The track climbed to #5 on Billboard's Adult Top-40 format chart, while peaking at #25 on their Alternative Rock radio list. Internationally, the single peaked at #2 in Canada and #8 in the UK. A final international single from the Sheryl Crow album, "Home", reached the top-40 in the UK (#25) and Canada (#40). 

 

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There was a second version of the music video directed by Michael Gondry and featured a myriad of celebrity cameos...

Here's Sheryl performing the song live in concert in 1996...

and again at a show in 2004...

and finally, on Letterman in 2010...

Up tomorrow: late rapper had financial issues.