“Come to My Window” by Melissa Etheridge

"Come to My Window" was the second single from Yes I Am, the fourth Melissa Etheridge album, issued by Island in 1993, and the first hit she had after coming out publicly as a lesbian. She wrote it and co-produced it with Hugh Padgham, who also engineered and mixed, and the band is stacked: Etheridge on acoustic and electric guitar, Waddy Wachtel on electric, Pino Palladino on bass, Scott Thurston on keyboards and Mauricio Lewak on drums and percussion.

Radio came around largely because listeners kept phoning in requests, with the gay rights movement pushing behind it, and the song hung on the Hot 100 for 44 weeks, peaking at 25. It won her a second Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, and Samuel Bayer's video, featuring Juliette Lewis, was nominated at the 1994 Billboard Music Video Awards.

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