Songoftheday 11/7/21 - One way In the eyes of a passerby, I look around for another try and fade away...
"Someday" - Sugar Ray
from the album 14:59 (1999)
Billboard Hot 100 peak; #7 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 29
Today's song is from the rock group Sugar Ray, who had overcome the "sophomore slump" with their album 14:59 (a play enough on their supposed fame length) which had already spun off a top ten pop/#1 rock hit with "Every Morning" in the spring of 1999. While rock radio hooked on to "Falls Apart" as the follow-up (it will be a future SOTD), pop radio stations gravitated first to the softer "Someday" for the second "single", which was released commercially. Written by the band with producer David Kahne, the song borrow heavily from the baroque-pop of the late 1960's, with his chord progressions and forlorn lyrics about a time in the future, and the music video adds to that with its black-and-white palette. The result is it sounds like Steve Miller singing a Young Rascals album track, with the twist being the turntablist Craig Bullock being the "percussion" for the record instead of drums...
"Someday" became Sugar Ray's second official top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in October of 1999. The song spent two weeks at #3 on Billboard magazine's older-skewing Adult Top-40 radio chart, while making it to #29 on the Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") format list. It even climbed to #7 on the Alternative Rock radio chart as well. Internationally, the single rose to #4 in Canada, made the top-40 in New Zealand at #25, and was a minor hit in the UK (#88), Germany (#87), and Australia (#78). Both Sugar Ray and this album will return to the series.
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Next up, in concert that same year...
And lastly, on a Sessions At AOL stint from 2010...
Up tomorrow: A stream of consciousness that Train would be proud of for this boy-band trio...
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