Wednesday September 14, 2022 “Two Princes” Spin Doctors
Now I know there are those of you who feel that this is a trivial piece of music but I am here to defend it.
"Two Princes" is the Spin Doctors’ 1993 song, released as the second single from their debut album, Pocket Full of Kryptonite. It peaked at number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100. Outside of the US, it topped the charts in Iceland and Sweden, and peaked within the top ten of the charts in Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the Republic of Ireland, and the United Kingdom. The song earned them a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group and it sold more than one million copies.
I believe that moves the song to a much more significant category than simply trivial.
The Spin Doctors first single, "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong," was a modest hit, climbing to number seventeen in the US but "Two Princes" did far better, becoming their biggest hit and best-known song. Both songs were composed by the entire band: Chris Baron, Aaron Comess, Eric
Schenkman and Mark White.
Chris Barron is a literature fanatic, which played a part in this song, he said, “I loved wizards and kings and queens and princes and princesses and stuff like that. And I loved Shakespeare - I already was way into Shakespeare. So I gravitated towards that kind of imagery just because I liked books and poems from that period of time."
Stay safe and well…and be on the lookout for that frog who may be your princely lover...or princess-ly lover.