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"Invisible Man" - 98 Degrees

from the album 98 Degrees (1997)

Billboard  Hot 100 peak: #12 (two weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 20

 

Today's song of the day comes from the "boy-band" male vocal group 98 Degrees. Brothers Drew and Nick Lachey along with Nick's friend Justin Jeffre and Jeff Timmons came together in Los Angeles, where they eventually were signed by Motown Records, where they recorded their eponymous debut album which was released in 1997. The lead single, "Invisible Man", was produced by Dane DeViller and Sean Hosein, who wrote it with Steve Kipner, who was a one-hit wonder in his own right in the 1970 with Tin Tin's "Toast And Marmalade For Tea" but is better known for co-writing Olivia Newton-John's "Physical". The result was a midtempo "have pity on me girls" song that got the girls wooed properly...

"Invisible Man" became 98 Degrees' first top-40 pop hit in America in September of 1997. The song also climbed to #26 on Billboard magazine's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart, and (probably due to its Motown connections) crossed over to their R&B list at #38. Internationally, the single peaked at #4 in Canada and #10 in New Zealand, and was a minor hit in the UK at #66. The 98 Degrees album, released in July of that year, went to #145 on the Billboard 200 sales tally eventually selling over a half-million copies, even though second single "Was It Something I Didn't Say", written by song doctor master Diane Warren and produced by Babyface protege Daryl Simmons, pretty much stiffed. But Motown didn't give up on them, and they would come back bigger than ever on their next release a year later. 

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There was a different music video originally released for the song done in an empty warehouse it seems...

 

 

Here's the group performing at the basketball tie-in Team It Up TV show...

 and getting the women to swoon on the Today Show set in 2012...

 

and lastly, for a radio gig in 2013...

Up tomorrow: R&B group warn against unsupported offers.