gin blossoms sang til i hear it from you.
gin blossoms sang til i hear it from you.
who sings til i hear it from you?
gin blossoms
when the advance single from "congratulations i'm sorry", "follow you down", was issued as a single in january 1996, "til i hear it from you" served as b-side. both featured sides debuted as a double a-side hit, identified as "til i hear it from you"/ "follow you down", on the hot 100 dated february 10, 1996, with the single becoming the gin blossoms' first top 20 single with its number 12 debut. the positioning of the titles of the single's two sides in its debut hot 100 ranking, with "til i hear it from you" appearing first, was due to the current airplay for "til i hear it from you" being heavier, and on the subsequent two weeks' hot 100 charts the single, ranked both weeks at number 11, again appeared as "til i hear it from you"/ "follow you down": as of the hot 100 chart dated march 6, 1996 the single's ranking appeared as "follow you down"/ "til i hear it from you", "follow you down" now being the favored airplay side. as the single's highest hot 100 position with "til i hear it from you" acknowledged first was number 11 that peak position is generally cited as the hot 100 peak for "til i hear it from you": however, the hot 100 continued to rank both "follow you down" and "til i hear it from you" as a double a-side hit throughout the single's 46-week chart tenure, and the highest hot 100 position attained by "follow you down"/ "til i hear it from you" was number nine where it held for four weeks in march 1996.
til i hear it from you
stagewhispers described it as a "vocally demanding opening prologue". allmusic described this song, along with the title song, as "crafty/schmaltzy ballads". gramophone wrote "karimloo’s phantom seethes magnificently in his opening ballad ‘til i hear you sing". the bbc demed it "the musical’s most memorable song,", and described karimloo’s performance as "full-blooded". ckickey described it as " a genuinely stirring show-stopper", "prodigious", "pulsating", and a "great song". the telegraph named it "one of the show’s finest songs". the stage deemed the number, along with love never dies, as "stand outs". reviewing the australian version of the musical, the herald sun wrote the phantom's "opening rendition of 'til i hear you sing is thrilling and no song that follows meets this level." london theatreland wrote "i did not leave the theatre humming "till i hear you sing". but will people be humming "till i hear you sing" in months, years to come? of course, they will." gramaphone says the phantom "seethes magnificently in his opening ballad ". entertainment weekly said "instead of "music of the night," we get a piercing succession of key changes through "til i hear you sing" as [erik] longs for christine to be restored as his muse", concluding "his musical mastery has...largely deserted him". news.com deemed it "the show's strongest number...which remains the standout performance of the night until...the title song."
'til i hear you sing