Songotheday 9/28/12 - Honey love won't ease my mind, and I need to find someone to call mine...

Phil Collins - "You Can't Hurry Love"
from the album Hello, I Must Be Going! (1982)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #10 (three weeks)
Weeks in the top-40: 16

Today's Song of the Day is a classic Motown jam redone by prog-rock drummer/singer from Genesis Phil Collins.

"You Can't Hurry Love" was the 7th #1 hit for the Supremes, from their first #1 album Supremes A Go-Go, the first be an all-female group to do so.

Phil Collins released his first solo album apart from Genesis in 1981, and the personal and emotional tone of Face Value was a needed outlet for Collins stemming from his divorce from his first wife, and two songs from the set, "In The Air Tonight" and "I Missed Again", made the top-20 on the American pop chart.

For his second album, Hello, I Must Be Going!, Collins still had more bad feelings to mine about that failed relationship, and the album was even better than the first; in fact, it's one of my top-10 favorite albums of all time. But amidst all the angst and emotion on the set, the one "one of the these things is not like the other" moment is the inclusion of the totally faithful cover of the song by Collins, reusing the same instrumentation and background vocal setup, but sounding even punchier than the precious original...

Phil's version was his first solo #1 in Britain, and made the pop and adult-contemporary (soft-rock) top-10 in the US, as it did in Australia, Germany, and mostly everywhere else in the world. It also climbed into the rock radio top-30 as well.

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The rockabilly group Stray Cats had the song as the B-side of their single "Rock This Town" which was on the charts the same time as Collins...

In 1999, the Dixie Chicks covered the song on the soundtrack of the Julia Roberts flick Runaway Bride...

Finnish band Clifters did a translated version of the song in 1989...

Finally, Bossasonic put an island spin on the classic in 2009...

Up tomorrow: A love duet revived by Luke Spencer of General Hospital.