"I Miss You"
Single by Aaron Hall
from the album The Truth
ReleasedSeptember 29, 1993 (September 29, 1993)
Recorded1993 (1993)
GenreR&B
Length
  • 6:22 (album version)
  • 5:24 (long radio edit)
  • 4:54 (short radio edit)[1]
LabelMCA
Songwriter(s)Aaron Hall, Gregory Cauthen[2]
Aaron Hall singles chronology
"When You Need Me"
(1994)		 "I Miss You"
(1993)		 "Let’s Make Love"
(1994)
Music video
"I Miss You" on YouTube

"I Miss You" is a song performed and co-written[2] by American R&B musician Aaron Hall, issued as the fourth single from his solo debut album The Truth. The song is his biggest hit to date on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #14 in 1994.[3] The song was made in honor of his first child who died during birth. Hall wants to insist listeners of feelings and emotions about losing a spouse or child during giving birth.[4]

Music video

Despite the song's lyrics implying that Hall's lover left him for someone else, the music video shows him in mourning over the death of his wife Charmane (played by Edith Grant) as their life is shown in flashbacks. His wife is pregnant with their son as they prepare to welcome him into their home. One night, Charmane wakes up in labor and gets a glass of milk, but collapses in pain. Aaron wakes up to find she is not in bed with him and rushes to the kitchen when he hears her screams. He rushes her to the hospital where she is taken to the Emergency Room but he is forced to wait outside. While he is comforted by his friends, Charmane dies while giving birth to their son and Aaron is devastated. He is later seen attending Charmane's funeral as her father gives Aaron their newborn son. Now a widower, Aaron cares for his son and shows him a picture of Charmane and the video ends with father and son visiting the grave of Charmane.

While the music video was not directly inspired by actual events, it has been claimed that Hall did go through a real-life situation where the roles were reversed, with he and his wife's first-born son dying at birth.[5]

The music video won at the Soul Train Awards 1995 for the Best Video of the Year.[6] [7]

Chart positions

Weekly charts

Chart (1994) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100[8] 14
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[9] 2
US Rhythmic Top 40 (Billboard) 3

Year-end charts

Chart (1994) Position
US Billboard Hot 100[10] 57
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks (Billboard)[11] 6

References

  1. ↑ "Image". Discogs. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "I Miss You - Aaron Hall - Listen, Appearances, Song Review - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Aaron Hall - Awards - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
  4. ↑ "A. Hall Interview". YouTube.
  5. ↑ "Did the Singer Aaron Hall Wife Die" @answers.com Retrieved November 27, 2019.
  6. ↑ What's The 411: Boyz II Men, Babyface, and Aaron Hall Appear on What's The 411TV - YouTube
  7. ↑ 1995 Soul Train Music Awards
  8. ↑ Billboard - Aaron Hall - Chart history
  9. ↑ Billboard - Aaron Hall Singles chart history
  10. ↑ Pedro. "Longbored Surfer - 1994". LongboredSurfer.com. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
  11. ↑ "Aaron Hall - Chart history - Billboard". Billboard. Retrieved May 24, 2014.


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