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" My Sweet Summer Suite " was a big club hit for soul legend Barry White's instrumental side project the Love Unlimited Orchestra. Appearing on their My Sweet Summer Suite album, written and produced by White, the entire record charted as one entry with the title track as well as "Brazilian Love Song" picked out for chosen dance hits. The set spent three weeks at #1 on the National Disco Action Top-30 chart in Billboard magazine, while also making the pop (#48), R&B (#28), and Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") (#30) charts. (Click below to see the rest of the post) And here's the "flip-side" of the single, "Brazilian Love Song"..

" Hold On " - Jamie Walters from the album Jamie Walters (1994) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #16 (two weeks) Weeks in the Top-40: 20 Today's song of the day comes from singer and actor Jamie Walters, who had been previously in the short-lived musical drama The Heights , playing the lead singer in the titular fictional band. Although the show didn't even last a season, a song from the show featuring Walters, " How Do You Talk To An Angel ", climbed all the way to #1 on Billboard magazine's pop Hot 100 chart in the fall of 1992. However, with the success of that track, Walters got himself signed as a solo artist by Atlantic Records. Two years later, Jamie found himself another acting gig on Fox Network on the "teen-drama" Beverly Hills 90210 , where he was cast as Ray Pruit, a musician who started dating Tori Spelling's character Donna. He wasn't a sympathetic character (hell, he pushed Tori down a flight of stairs), but the girls ...

"I've Got A Treat" was an underground club hit for the French disco act Martin Circus . Starting out as a progressive rock band that evolved into a disco unit. Singing mostly in French, this English-Language nugget appeared on their album Shine Baby Shine in 1979... While "I've Got A Treat" didn't reach the Dance/Disco charts in Billboard , the song remains an underground favorite.  

" Red Light Special " - TLC from the album CrazySexyCool (1994) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #2 (three weeks) Weeks in the Top-40: 19 Today's song of the day comes from the R&B/Hip Hop trio TLC , who started off the promotion of their second album CrazySexyCool with their first #1 pop hit " Creep " in the beginning of 1995. For their follow-up single, "T-Boz", "Left-Eye", and "Chilli" released a sensous ballad from Babyface called "Red Light Special". He also produced the track, which compares their desires to a sale in the "red light district", for better or for worse... "Red Light Special" climbed all the way to the runner-up spot on the American pop chart in April of 1995, where it stayed for three weeks. The song also spent a week at #3 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart. Internationally, the single made the top ten in New Zealand at #9, while reaching the top-40 in the UK (#18...

" Hello Again " was the biggest club hit for the new wave band the Cars , led by singer/songwriter/producer Ric Ocasek , who just passed away at the age of 75 on Sunday. Appearing on their classic album Heartbeat City as the opening track, the song was written by Ocasek, while the band produced it with Robert "Mutt" Lange (which explains the bright, loud, and busy production). On Billboard magazine's Hot Dance/Disco chart, "Hello Again" rose to #8, the band's sole top ten entry on any dance chart, thanks to remixes done by Arthur Baker with help from the Latin Rascals and Andy Wallace. The song also peaked at #20 on the pop chart and the rock radio chart... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

" Foe Tha Love of $ " - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony from the EP Creepin' On Ah Come Up (1994) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #41 This week's "robbed hit" comes from the rap group from Cleveland, Ohio, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony , who had broke through to the mainstream music scene in the fall of 1994 with their first top-40 pop hit " Thuggish Ruggish Bone ". For their follow-up single, the group went financial and released "Foe Tha Love Of $", which featured a verse from their mentor, rapper Eazy-E, who also appeared in the music video right before he passed away from AIDS-related illness in March of 1995. The female vocals were done by Jewell (not the folk singer), who sang on many of Death Row Records' hits... Although "Foe Tha Love Of $" climbed to #4 on Billboard magazine's Rap Singles chart, and peaked at #33 on their R&B genre chart, the single stalled at the dreaded #41 spot a week before Eazy-E's death in March...

"You Got It" - Bonnie Raitt from the album Boys On The Side (Original Soundtrack) (1995) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #33 Weeks in the Top-40: 6 Today's song of the day comes from veteran blues-rock artist Bonnie Raitt , who had released her third album of her renaissance period in the spring of 1994 with the top-20 pop hit " Love Sneakin' Up On You ". The album Longing In Their Hearts also won a Grammy Award for Pop Vocal Album and was nominated for Album of the Year. The following year, Bonnie recorded a song for the mostly female-packed soundtrack to the movie Boys On The Side , which starred Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Barrymore, and Mary-Louise Parker. It would be a remake of the final hit record for rock and roll legend Roy Orbison, who passed away just before " You Got It " became a top ten hit in the spring of 1989... Raitt's version doesn't stray far from Roy's, with the same guitar-based easy-listening arrangement meant f...