Where were you on April 28, 1994? That's the day All-4-One's cover of "I Swear," originally a chart-topping country track from John Michael Montgomery, was released to the public. That crooned rendition also hit #1 and stayed there for 11 weeks. If you're a member of Generation X, there's a better-than-average chance it was played at your wedding.

Singer Jamie Jones - one hesitates to call him All-4-One's "lead vocalist," given the a-cappella-inflected nature of the Grammy-winning quartet - is aware he's complicit in thousands of prom-night liaisons over the years. It's easy to make fun of a romantic standy like that, so we'll cop to cynical leanings when we asked Jones the strangest story any fan of the song ever unloaded on him.

"We did The Montel Williams Show right before he retired," Jones replied. Williams ambushed the group with a special guest fan. "This 15-year-old girl and her brothers - it was their favorite song ever - they were driving to see their grandmother, and a deer runs out in front of them. And they're all ejected from the Jeep, and her two brothers didn't make it. ‘I Swear' was the song they all sang together. She got so depressed after losing her brothers, who were her best friends, that she decided to take every pill in the medicine cabinet.

"As she was taking the very last one," Jones continued, "she didn't even realize the radio was on. They start playing ‘I Swear.' And she said it was like the radio turned up and got loud. And to her it was a sign that her brothers, and of course God, were watching over her and didn't want her to do that. And she immediately put her hand down her throat and called 911 and called her mom and told her what she'd done. Hearing that song, and with everything it meant to her and her brothers, saved her life. And we're sitting there backstage, crying our eyes out, and now we have to go on and sing and dance - our new uptempo single! They couldn't have warned us? And we're looking at this young, beautiful, 16-year-old girl, and I have kids. I'm thankful that we've been able to make music that has touched people in so many different ways."

If your youthful escapades were choreographed to radio favorites like "Shoop" or "Bust a Move," then the "I Love the ‘90s" tour that's passing through the Tacoma Dome this Friday is your jam. Catch All-4-One, Rob Base ("It Takes Two"), Color Me Badd, Coolio, Salt-N-Pepa, Tone L?c and Young MC, all in the dome together for one stone-cold-slammin' dance party. As Jones says, "All music becomes old-school music at some point, but it's the soundtrack to people's lives. It attaches itself to your emotions and memories."

"I Love the ‘90S", 7:30 p.m., Fri., Aug. 26, Tacoma Dome, 2727 East D St., Tacoma, $25.50-$99.50, 253.272.3663