New Radicals

New Radicals were an incredibly short lived band started by songwriter Gregg Alexander and former child actress Danielle Brisebois; (best known today for playing Archie Bunker’s nephew, Stephanie Mills, in the show All in The Family and it’s spinoff, Archie Bunker’s Place; also an accomplished songwriter) all other members were just session musicians.

The band released only two singles from their only album before breaking up, the worldwide smash hit “You Get What You Give” and “Someday We’ll Know” (the latter better known for the Mandy Moore and Jon Foreman (of Switchfoot fame) cover for the A Walk to Remember soundtrack.

The band broke up around the time of their final single, “Someday We’ll Know” which failed to chart to chart in the US except in the Billboard Adult Pop Songs category. It’s been speculated that the reason of the failure was because it the bands' break up overshadowed the single and it gave their record label MCA little reason to promote.

While they were only around for one album, both Alexander and Brisebois are still in the music industry. Alexander would later win a Grammy for writing the Santana and Michelle Branch hit, “The Game of Love” and would become a prolific songwriter. Danielle Brisebois would go on to write the hit Natasha Bedingfield song, “Unwritten.”
Eventually both of them would reunite to write the soundtrack to the film “Begin Again” in 2014.