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Air Supply - "Even The Nights Are Better"

from the album Now And Forever (1982)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #5 (two weeks)

Weeks in the top-40: 13

Today's relaxing Sunday Song of the Day is by the most easy-going of soft-rock groups, Air Supply. Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock formed the group in the late seventies after meeting on a production of Jesus Christ Superstar, and had a couple of hits in their homeland before striking gold in 1980 with a re-recorded version of "Lost In Love", a top-3 pop and #1 adult-contemporary hit in the US. The following year, they got their solitary US pop #1 hit with "All Out Of Love", from their biggest studio album, the top-10 The One That You Love.

"Even The Nights Are Better" was released as the first single from their third American album, Now And Forever, and became their seventh consecutive top-5 pop hit...

They do have a pattern, don't they? Consider them the Siegfried and Roy of romance-novel pop, if you will. The song also topped the adult-contemporary (soft-rock) charts, their third following 1980's "Here I Am". However, they only reached #35 in Australia, signaling their concentration on the American market.

Canadian songstress Anne Murray would remake the song for her 1991 Yes I Do album.

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