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"Faded Pictures" - Case & Joe

from the albums Rush Hour (Original Soundtrack) (1998) and Personal Conversation (1999)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #10 (one week)

Weeks in the Top-40: 9

 

Today's song comes from R&B singers Case and Joe, who had both broke through in the latter half of the 1990's. Case Woodard had scored hit first top-40 pop hit in the summer of 1996 with his contribution to the Eddie Murphy-driven Nutty Professor movie reboot, "Touch Me, Tease Me".  Meanwhile, Joe Thomas' sophomore effort All That I Am had landed a pair of top-40 pop hits with "All The Things (Your Man Won't Do)" from the Don't Be A Menace To South Central... movie and "Don't Wanna Be A Player". The latter song, which hit the top-40 in the spring of 1997, was reimagined by rapper Big Punisher as "Still Not A Player", which featured Joe singing the chorus, which made the top-40 in the summer of 1998. Later that year, Case and Joe recorded a song for yet another soundtrack, this time the Jackie Chan/Chris Tucker buddy cop movie Rush Hour. "Faded Pictures", produced by Joe, who co-wrote the track with Joshua Thompson, was a midtempo number where the two singers trade verses about reminiscing about a past love. The weird thing about the record, though, is while Case is singing in the first person about a breakup, Joe is singing in the perspective of the lady, who also is heartbroken. As sweet as their voices are, I'm not sure that not having a woman sing that part does the song any favors, as it just puts Joe in a narrator's position. Hmm. Anyway, the single became the third hit from Rush Hour, after Dru Hill's top ten pop hit "How Deep Is Your Love" and Jay-Z's "Can I Get A..."...

"Faded Pictures" became the first top ten pop hit for both Case and Joe in February of 1999. The song spent two weeks at #3 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart as well. The song would go on to be on Case's second album Personal Conversation, which brought the singer his first top-40 album on the Billboard 200 sales tally at #33, while making it to #5 on the R&B Albums list, going on to sell over a half million copies. Both Case and Joe will be back (separately) to this series.

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Here's Joe singing solo the hit he produced and co-wrote...

Up tomorrow: A reFugee talks about Wyclef, perhaps.