Today's Forgotten Oldie...

Doug Edwards was a member of Skylark, and Dave Richardson was a friend of band member David Foster. "Wildflower" was a song which Edwards composed using a poem written by Richardson. Skylark used the song as a demo, was signed by Capitol, and recorded an album. Wildflower was the initial single released from the album, however it was not successful - but - Rosalie Trombley, a music director at CKLW in Windsor, Ontario, played "Wildflower" repeatedly for three months in an effort to satisfy the Canadian government's requirements for Canadian content. Capitol decided to release the song in neighboring Detroit as a regional release, where it became a huge soul hit before breaking out nationally and crossing over to the pop charts. Eventually "Wildflower" spent 21 weeks on the Billboard pop charts. The song proved to be extremely popular in Canada as well; it ultimately peaked at number 10 on the RPM Top Singles chart, and number 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart plus sales of the single exceeded one million copies. Despite being a "one-hit wonder" the song was a top ten hit... but we never hear it any more.