Robbed hit of the week 3/8/21 - Blessid Union Of Souls' "Light In Your Eyes"...

 

 

"Light In Your Eyes" -  Blessid Union Of Souls

from the album Blessid Union Of Souls (1997)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #48 (three weeks)

This week's "robbed hit" comes from the pop band Blessid Union Of Souls, whose self-titled sophomore effort had put them back into the American Top-40 with the single "I Wanna Be There" in the summer of 1997. The second release from the set was the folk-rock-like waltz "Light In Your Eyes". Written by lead singer Eliot Sloan with Tommy Sims, the song has Eliot singing to a lost love, shifting from who's to blame to trying to bargain whether she'll come back to them, only to admit at the end that when he tried to call she pretended to not be her. Not good. This over a pretty backdrop of acoustic guitars, understated percussion, and a sweet string section...

While "Light In Your Eyes" did well at the older-skewing "easy listening" radio stations, reaching #16 on Billboard magazine's Adult Contemporary chart and #29 at the Adult Top-40 format, the single stopped right above the halfway point on the official Hot 100 pop chart in February of 1998.

(7/10)

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Here's the band performing live in 1997...

and lastly, Eliot talking about the song in an interview with a little impromptu take...