funky's journey through the 90s (again, again) (4 Viewers)

[Shirley]

Didn't MASS ORDER have a small UK HIT with LIFT EVERY VOICE? I have that somewhere

Being a student at the time I fucking HATE Jump Around and could quite happily NEVER hear it again

My mother used to love kd lang live

 

[Shirley]

I remember buying the 12" PICTURE DISC of THUNDER (was this the only release there was? I wouldn't usually buy those) in WOOLWORTHS in BLACKPOOL to the BEMUSEMENT of my GRANDFATHER. Can't think why I was visiting them then.

 

[funky]

Didn't MASS ORDER have a small UK HIT with LIFT EVERY VOICE? I have that somewhere

YES

when I was on the OCC website looking for any morsel of information about them, I was reminded of that. That song did slightly better - #35

 

[funky]

Woolies sold picture discs?

Actually I’m probably thinking of the LOCAL Woolies that I worked in which barely had a Top 40. The ones in Liverpool and Southport were much bigger and probably sold them. They used to have SPECIAL SHELVING where the cassette and CD would sit in front of the vinyl so you could pick which format you wanted for each chart album or single …

These kids DON’T KNOW THEY’RE BORN

 

[alla]

Discoveries:

So this is the Nia Peeples song I like:



A classic ballad production, it hits all the right notes. This only went to #88 however and was her last single.

I was going to post it too the other day with the first 2 singles, but didn't want to saturate, no idea anyone would know/remember this. It got a very positive review from Billboard, but unfortunately didn't do much.


Other songs released in June that are not gonna make the Hot 100:

· Kathy Troccoli's follow up to Everything changes, a beautiful ballad she cowrote, You've got a way.




· Jody Watley's third single from her very underrated album Affairs of the heart, this is It all begins with you. Not only missed the Hot 100, it almost missed the r&b singles chart, stalling at #80 shame because I really like it.




· Najee was not as popular as Kenny G, but this saxophonist had a bunch of r&b hits, and made the top 40 in the r&b chart with a cover of last year's number one for Color Me Badd, I adore mi amor. Not that I love it, but more a curiosity than anything else.




· And now this is truly a curiosity, because this single by Boyz II Men is not even listed on wikipedia, like if it never happened; no wonder given how chaotic it was. In June 92, a fifth single from their debut album was released, Sympin. That was just 3 weeks before End of the road was sent to radio (being released as a single 2 weeks later). I'm not sure what happened here, because surely they had to know 3 weeks before that End of the road was gonna be released. My guess is they already had the promotion done, the video filmed and the singles (at least promo ones that are sent in advance to radio) printed, because you can't do that overnight, so they had no choice but to release it anyway, knowing it was going to be totally overshadowed by the Boomerang track. Sympin actually made the r&b chart, peaking at #72 the week before End of the road debuted, and it vanished quickly as their new single zoomed to the top.