Ana & Jordan Knight - "Angel Of Love"

[Hervard]

This is a song that received sporadic Top 40 radio airplay in the summer of 1990 (right around the same time as the other New Kid duet, "The Right Combination" by Seiko and Donny Wahlberg). It did not chart on Billboard, but it did manage to peak at #10 on Z95's Top 30 chart the last week in July of 1990. The week after that, Z95 discontinued the "Chicago Top 30 Countdown" and instead, went with "Dave Sholin's Insider".

Here's a full clip of the song.

Sounds sort of a cross between "When I Need You" by Leo Sayer and "Always" by Atlantic Starr.

[dth1971]

I thought "Angel of Love" did make Billboard's Hot 100, maybe #59? (Seiko/Donnie Walberg's "Right Combination" barely made the Top 60 of Billboard's Hot 100)

[Hervard]

No, "Angel Of Love" did not make the Hot 100. I don't think it was released as a single (then again, it might have been and just not done anything. The New Kids had clearly already had their day in the sun and their popularity was beginning to wane, which is probably one of the reasons that "The Right Combination" didn't do very well (peaked at #54, BTW).

I think that B96 played "Angel Of Love" also, because I seem to remember, the day before I went to college, I was listening to their Top Five request show and that song was #1. "The Right Combination" was on there, too.

[dth1971]

Also: After the failures of the NKOTB member duets with Ana and Seiko (at the same time the New Kids were on the Top 40 charts with "Tonight"), the New Kids on the Block failed to make the Top 40 with "Let's Try it Again" and "Games", they wouldn't make the Top 40 again until 1992 with "If You Go Away", and then after one more failure in 1994 called "Dirty Dawg" it was over for NKOTB.

[tico]

Dec 29, 2007 10:36:24 GMT -5 dth1971 said:

they wouldn't make the Top 40 again until 2002 with "If You Go Away"

I think you meant 1992.

From what I can recall, this song never got airplay in my area. I did spend a portion of that summer in Chicago and Detroit and did hear it on the radio in those cities.

[dth1971]

Dec 30, 2007 15:38:15 GMT -5 @tico said:

Dec 29, 2007 10:36:24 GMT -5 dth1971 said:

they wouldn't make the Top 40 again until 2002 with "If You Go Away"

I think you meant 1992.

From what I can recall, this song never got airplay in my area. I did spend a portion of that summer in Chicago and Detroit and did hear it on the radio in those cities.

Fixed the year for you!