Try Again (Champaign song)

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"Try Again"
Single by Champaign
from the album Modern Heart
B-side"International Feel"
ReleasedFebruary 1983
GenreR&B
Length3:42
LabelColumbia/CBS Records
Songwriter(s)Dana Walden, Rocky Maffitt, Michael Day
Champaign singles chronology
"Can You Find the Time?" / "Whiplash"
(1981)
"Try Again"
(1983)
"Off and On Love"
(1984)

"Try Again" is a song by American contemporary R&B group Champaign. Released in February 1983[1] as the only single from their album Modern Heart, this ballad rose through the Billboard Hot 100 chart in April and May, peaking at number 23 in mid-June.[2]

Chart history[edit]

Chart (1983) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100[3] 23
US Billboard R&B 2
US Billboard Adult Contemporary[4] 6
Year-end chart (1983) Rank
US Top Pop Singles (Billboard)[5] 85

Personnel[edit]

  • Pauli Carman - lead vocals
  • Rena (Jones) Day - backing vocals
  • Leon Reeder - guitar
  • Michael Reed - bass
  • Michael Day - keyboards
  • Dana Walden - keyboards
  • Rocky Maffitt - drums

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Most Added Records". Billboard. Vol. 95, no. 7. February 19, 1983. p. 16. ISSN 0006-2510.
  2. ^ "Hot 100: Week of June 11, 1983". Billboard. Retrieved July 29, 2022.
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2007). Top Pop Singles: 1955-2006. Record Research.
  4. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 46.
  5. ^ "Talent Almanac 1984: Top Pop Singles". Billboard. Vol. 95, no. 52. December 24, 1983. p. TA-18.