8th Day

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8th Day was an American R&B group from Detroit, Michigan.

The Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting team had scored hits in 1970 with the group 100 Proof (Aged in Soul); when their song "Somebody's Been Sleeping in My Bed" became a hit, radio stations also began playing the tune "She's Not Just Another Woman". HDH wanted to release the song as another single but didn't want to hurt the sales of "Somebody's Been Sleeping in My Bed", so they released "She's Not Just Another Woman" on Invictus Records under the name 8th Day in 1971. The song became a hit, peaking at #11 in the U.S. charts, even though there was technically no group actually in existence by this name.^[1]

A second song released under the 8th Day name, "You've Got to Crawl (Before You Walk)", also hit the charts later that year, and so HDH put together an actual group under the name, but their later recordings didn't sell nearly as well as the first two, and the group quickly fizzled after a few more minor hits.

1 Members
2 Discography
3 Singles
4 References

[edit] Members

Melvin Davis - vocals
Antonio Newsome - bass
Lyman Woodard
Larry Hutchison
Ron Bykowski
Lynn Harter
Michael Anthony - guitar
Bruce Nazarian - guitar
Jerry Paul - percussion
Carole Stallings - violin
Anita Sherman - vibraphone

[edit] Discography

The 8th Day (Invictus Records, 1971) U.S. #131, U.S. Black Albums #42^[2]

[edit] Singles

Year	Title	Chart Positions^[3]
Year	Title	Billboard Hot 100	US Hot R&B/Hip Hop Singles
1971	"She's Not Just Another Woman" [Invictus 9087]	#11	#3
1971	"You've Got to Crawl (Before You Walk)" [Invictus 9098]	#28	#3
1972	"Eeny-Meeny-Miny-Mo (Three's a Crowd)" [Invictus 9117]	-	#29
1972	"If I Could See the Light"[Invictus 9107]	#79	#27