Songoftheday 4/29/24 - Back when I was a child before life removed all the innocence, my father would lift me high and dance with my mother and me...
" Dance With My Father " - Luther Vandross from the album Dance With My Father (2003) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #38 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 4 Today's song comes from the late R&B vocal master Luther Vandross , who had signed with Clive Davis' J Records and returned to the top-40 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 with the single " Take You Out ". But that was at the expense where the record company tried to remake him into a skirt-chasing loverboy. And selling a million plus copies of the album gave Luther the momentum to be more creative with his second set of the label, Dance With My Father . However its release was marked by the singer suffering a stroke in the spring of 2003 that put him in a coma up to the release date and would trouble him for the rest of his life. The lead single and title track "Dance With My Father", written by Vandross with pop star in his own right Richard Marx. It was recorded as a tribute to his fathe