| After the
ballad-deprived Isolation failed to meet the marketplace like
its predecessor, Toto IV, Toto returned to making lush, midtempo
tunes of romantic despair on Fahrenheit, enlisting their third
lead singer, Joseph Williams, and calling in chips all over
L.A. to score cameos from the likes of Michael McDonald, Don
Henley, David Sanborn, and even Miles Davis, who had the closing
track, "Don't Stop Me Now," pretty much to himself.
Williams was a slightly grittier
and more identifiable vocalist than Bobby Kimball or Fergie
Frederiksen.
But while the return to power
ballads had the intended effect on the pop and Adult Contemporary
charts (both "I'll Be over You" and "Without Your Love" scored),
the album had a relatively low chart peak and failed to go gold.
That kind of disconnection
always indicates that the radio audience is failing to identify
the songs with the group that made them, and it always means
a career in trouble.
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