After working for six years as a music teacher, backup singer, and songwriter-for-hire, Sheryl Crow found major success with her debut album, 1993’s Tuesday Night Music Club. That album went 7x Platinum and remains her biggest hit.
Though she didn’t match her debut’s success, she did release four more Platinum or multi-Platinum albums over the next 12 years, and has sold 50 million albums worldwide while winning nine Grammys throughout her career. She has not, however, had a song reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Despite recording such instantly recognizable songs as ‘Leaving Las Vegas,’ ‘If It Makes You Happy,’ ‘Everyday is a Winding Road,’ ‘A Change Would Do You Good,’ ‘My Favorite Mistake,’ ‘Anything But Down,’ and ‘Soak Up the Sun,’ Crow failed to reach the top ten with any of them.
She’s made it to the top ten just three times. The 1996 single ‘If It Makes You Happen’ was the most recent, but her two top five hits came from that Tuesday Night Music Club debut.
Today’s SOTD, ‘Strong Enough,’ made it to #5, and the party anthem ‘All I Wanna Do’ peaked at #2. That song was kept from the top spot by Boyz II Men’s ‘I’ll Make Love to You’ for six straight weeks.
Crow did reach the top five one other time as a featured artist, pairing up with Kid Rock on his 2002 #4 hit ‘Picture.’
God, I feel like hell tonight
Tears of rage I cannot lie
I’d be the last to help you understand
Are you strong enough to be my man?
My man
[Verse 2]
Nothing’s true and nothing’s right
So let me be alone tonight
‘Cause you can’t change the way I am
Are you strong enough to be my man?
[Chorus]
Lie to me
I promise I’ll believe
Lie to me
But please don’t leave
Don’t leave
[Verse 3]
I have a face I cannot show
I make the rules up as I go
Just try and love me if you can
Are you strong enough to be my man?
My man
[Bridge]
(Are you strong enough) to be my man?
(Are you strong enough) to be my man?
(Are you strong enough) my man
[Verse 4]
When I’ve shown you that I just don’t care
When I’m throwing punches in the air
When I’m broken down and I can’t stand
Would you be man enough to be my man?
[Outro/Chorus]
Lie to me
I promise I’ll believe
Lie to me
But please, don’t leave
“All I Wanna Do” was SUCH a big song. Can’t believe it never made it to number 1!