Staying With Lisa

I was driving home today, clicking through songs on my Ipod and hit play when I came across "Stay (I Missed You" by Lisa Loeb.

Unbelievably this song has been around for 14 years. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1994.

The story behind the song is that actor Ethan Hawke heard it, and persuaded the makers of the film, Reality Bites, to put it on the soundtrack. They obliged. Lisa didn't even have a contract with a record label and when it hit No. 1 she earned the distinction of being the only artist in history to have a No. 1 hit without a record contract. That record still stands.

In these YouTube days, who knows how long she will hold onto that title.

Fourteen years have passed and I still love this song as if it's the first time I've heard it. It's so well written and has a great sound to it. I've seen Lisa in concert three times and each time she's performed her biggest hit, as it winds down, I wish it would keep going on.

I've added the song to my jukebox. It's track No. 5, and it's a version you might not have heard, a live acoustic version. Just Lisa and her guitar. Good stuff.