It was wonderful to have the success of the first record, and it created so many opportunities for me and made my life better on a material level, so all of that was really great. But having found success in road-testing songs before recording them, she didn’t rush to put this particular track on an album, even if she did think enough of it to play it to millions of viewers on that fateful Saturday evening in ’89.Īs Chapman told Charlie Rose during an interview circa the release of her 1995 album NEW BEGINNING, “I actually felt like I’d had enough of the music business. Yes, it’s true: in 1989, Chapman had performed “Give Me One Reason” when she was the musical guest on the Christmas episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live.
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Maybe that’s because American TV viewers had already been given a chance to absorb the song and start to fall in love with it half a dozen years before it was actually released. 21 years ago today, Tracy Chapman had a single enter the Billboard Hot 100 which would go on to become the biggest US hit of her career.
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