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"On My Own" - Peach Union

from the album Audiopeach (1997)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #39 (three weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 3

 

Today's song of the day comes from the British dance-pop group Peach Union, who came together in London in the mid-1990s. The trio was made up of singer Lisa Lamb, keyboardist Paul Statham, and producer Pascal Gabriel. Gabriel previously had fronted the dance act S'Express, which had three top ten hits in the UK including a song that hit #1 both on the pop chart there and on the dance chart here, "Theme From S'Express". They originally called themselves Neuronic, and a single released under that moniker, "Heaven", popped on to the British singles chart at #98 in 1996.  Rebranding themselves as Peach (and Peach Union in the States for copyright reasons), the trio released their next single, "On My Own" a year later. Written and produced by the group, the song slowed the pace to a midtempo update on "sophisti-pop", with bold production over wispy and retro vocals from Lamb. While their homeland gave it a little attention, American audiences gave it a much better reception...

"On My Own" became Peach Union's first and only pop hit in the U.S., landing in the top-40 in October of 1997. The song also climbed to #26 on Billboard magazine's Adult Top-40 radio chart. Internationally, the single originally went to #78 in the UK, then on re-release in 1998 popped back on at #69. Meanwhile, their biggest success came in Canada, where it peaked all the way up at #4. The Audiopeach album failed to make the sales chart either here or in the UK.

One more single came from the album in Britain, "From This Moment On", which took a solitary week at #94 on the UK chart. The trio would split shortly after, with Gabriel and Statham focusing more on songwriting, working on music from the likes of Kylie Minogue and Dido's UK top 10 hit "Here With Me". 

 

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There was an alternate version of the video for the single's other release...

 

 Up tomorrow: Canadian country girl is enraptured.