Songoftheday 5/31/22 - Your lips keep tellin' me you want me, hold me close all through the night...

 

 

"Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche)" - 98 Degrees

from the album Revelation (2000)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #2 (two weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 13

 

Today's song comes from the "boy-band" male vocal group 98 Degrees, whose sophomore album 98 Degrees and Rising in 1998 had spun off three top-40 pop hits with "Because Of You", "The Hardest Thing", and "I Do (Cherish You)". The following year, the foursome released a holiday album This Christmas, and the song "This Gift" nearly became a rare top-40 pop hit that Christmas. They celebrated the millennium with their first and only #1 as a featured guest with R&B singer Joe on Mariah Carey's Rainbow single "Thank God I Found You" in February of 2000. 

Nick and Drew Lachey, Jeff Timmons, and Justin Jeffre returned later that year with their fourth studio album Revelation on Universal Records. The lead single from the record was the dance-pop track "Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche)". Although written by a trio of Swedes - Anders Bagge, Arnthor Birgisson, and Claudia "Deetah" Ogalde - and produced by the former two, the record sounded like it was out of the Latin Explosion camp (not surprising, since non-Latin's penned most of Enrique Iglesias and Ricky Martin's hits). In it Nick and Jeff attempt to woo their woman into the bedroom, insisting they know her desire and lay it out plainly that they are happy to just have a one-night stand. Feeding off their criminally good looks, it was a quick sell to their fans, and radio came one board to help give them their highest charting hit as a lead artist...

 

 "Give Me One More Night" spent a pair of weeks in the runner-up position on Billboard magazine's pop Hot 100 chart in September/October of 2000. The song also popped on to the older-skewing Adult Top-40 airplay list at #38, and the dance-oriented Rhythmic format chart at #19. Internationally, the single went all the way to #2 in Canada, while scoring a top-40 hit in New Zealand (#12), Australia (#21), Sweden (#33), and the Netherlands (#40), and stalled down at #61 in the UK. The Revelation album, released in September as the song was cresting on the charts, spent a week at #2 on the Billboard 200 sales tally, their highest rank and only top ten placing, going on to sell over two million copies. Both 98 Degrees and the album will return to the series (for one more night).

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Here's the guys singing the hit in a televised concert for the Disney Channel in 1999...

Up tomorrow: This colorful singer typecasts the females.