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"Sun After The Rain" was an underground classic from Argentine disco produer Bebu Silvetti. Appearing on his album Concert From The Stars , the song never reached the disco charts in Billboard magazine, but it was a favorite among DJs across the country nonetheless...

" Crazy " - Aerosmith from the album Get A Grip (1993) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #17 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 16 Today's song of the day comes from blues-rock legends Aerosmith , whose Get A Grip album had already spun off three big pop hits with " Livin' On The Edge ", " Cryin' " and " Amazing ". A song they contributed to the soundtrack to the Beavis & Butthead movie, " Deuces Are Wild ", climbed to #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart, but was never available for purchase other than the album. The fourth and final physical single released from the album was "Crazy", written by bandmates Steven Tyler and Joe Perry along with song doctor Desmond Child. The music video again featured Alicia Silverstone of Clueless ... "Crazy" became the fourth top-40 pop hit from Get A Grip in July of 1994. The song also climbed to #7 on the Mainstream Rock chart in Billboard magazine. Internationall...

"It's A War " was a big club hit for the Italian disco group Kano. Taken from their debut album Kano , the song was written and produced by Luciano Nenziatti, Stefano Pulga, and Bruno Gergonzi, with vocals from Rosanna Casale, Leila Esposito, and Piero Cairo. The single, listed with the B-side " Ahjia ", spent five weeks at #2 on the Disco Top 100 chart in Billboard magazine.

" Moving On Up " - M People from the album Elegant Slumming (1993) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #34 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 3 Today's song of the day comes from the British dance music act M People , who came together in the early 1990s when producers Mike Pickering and Paul Heard hired on singer Heather Small for a project named for Pickering as "Mike's People". In 1991, they scored their first British top-40 hit with " How Can I Love You More? ", which served as the first single from their debut album Northern Soul . Originally climbing to #29 in 1991, after three more songs from the album reached the top-40, it was re-released and soared to #8 in 1993. Later that summer, M People released their sophomore effort, Elegant Slumming . The first release from it, " One Night In Heaven ", became their second top-ten British hit at #6. But it would be their second single from the record that would become the act's biggest hi...

"I'll Be Holding On" with an early disco hit for rockabilly country singer Al Downing. A piano player who had a minor pop hit in 1963 with " You Never Miss Your Water " with Esther Phillips, this disco crossover was written by Downing with Lance Quinn and Andrew Smith, and produced by Meco Monardi and Tony BonGiovi (cousin to Jon and founder of the Power Station studio). It topped the Disco Action chart in Billboard magazine for three weeks in 1974, spending 21 weeks on the chart, courtesy of a remix by Tom Moulton. The song also went to #31 on the R&B chart and #85 on Billboard 's Hot 100 pop list. Downing would go on to have a string of country hits in the 1980s.

Friday's here, and it's time to run down my top 100 "hit" tunes from the week. Sam Smith & former Fifth Harmony member Normani climb to #1, while the Jonas Brothers (pictured above) scale three spots in the top ten. Songs from Lauv/Troye Sivan, Catfish & The Bottlemen, and Marshmello/CHVRCHES make the biggest jumps (moves of 10+ places highlighted in red ). Happy Eurovision weekend! This Week             Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Dancing With A Stranger - Sam Smith & Normani (2) 2. Lo/Hi - Black Keys (4) 3. Ready To Let Go - Cage The Elephant (1) 4. Sweet But Psycho - Ava Max (3) 5. Close To Me - Ellie Goulding & Diplo f/Swae Lee (5) 6. Sucker - Jonas Brothers (9) 7. Without Me - Halsey (6) 8. Hey Look Ma, I Made It - Panic At The Disco (16) 9. Trampoline - SHAED (10) 10...

" I Miss You " - Aaron Hall from the album The Truth (1993) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #14 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 15 Today's song of the day comes from R&B singer Aaron Hall, who had been a member of the new jack swing group Guy since the late 1980s. He released his first solo single in 1992; it was a song for the soundtrack to the movie Juice . " Don't Be Afraid " went to #1 on Billboard 's R&B chart, but stopped short of the top-40 at #44. In 1993, he released his for full-length album The Truth . The uptempo lead single " Get A Little Freaky With Me " stalled under the R&B top-40 at #48, and didn't reach the pop chart at all (although it did hit the British singles chart at #66). He did better with his second release, the slow jam " Let's Make Love ", which made the top-40 level at #36 while "bubbling under" the pop Hot 100 at #113. The third single would be the ballad "I Miss You...