Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English. Show all posts

Sunday, November 12, 2017

Marc Anthony "My Baby You"

Marc Anthony was red hot in 2000 thanks to the success of his self-entitled album. The album was Marc's first album of English songs and contained hits like "You Sang to Me" and "I Need to Know". "My Baby You" was the album's fourth single.

Monday, August 7, 2017

Hall & Oates "Promise Ain't Enough"

Hall & Oates is best known for their music from the '70s and '80s, but the band didn't slow down in the 1990s.  Their fifteenth album, Marigold Sky, produced the ballad "Promise Ain't Enough" in 1997.  While the song may have made English teachers cringe, Adult Contemporary radio stations rushed to add the tune.  The song peaked at #6.

Sunday, February 19, 2017

Celine Dion - "Water from the Moon"

Columbia Records tried to squeeze another hit out of Celine Dion's self-titled album.  The album was Celine's second English album and proved to be a game changer.  After finding success with "If You Asked Me To", "Love Could Move Mountains", "Nothing Broken But My Heart", and "Beauty and the Beast", Columbia released "Water from the Moon" in 1993.  While the song didn't tear up the charts, it found a home on Adult Contemporary radio stations at a time when the format was hungry for anything that had Celine's name on it.

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Sergio Mendes - "Alibis"

Isn't the English language interesting?  One look at the word alibis and you'd likely pronounce it "al-eh-biss".  But, no.  It's actually "al-uh-byes".  "Alibis" happens to be a song title from Sergio Mendes' Confetti album.  Buuuut, Mendes didn't actually sing the song.  Rather it was Joe Pizzulo (who also sang on Mendes' other AC hit "Never Gonna Let You Go".)  "Alibis" peaked at #5 on the Adult Contemporary Chart in 1984.