Songoftheday 10/1/12 - You better watch what you say, you better watch what you do to me...

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "You Got Lucky"
from the album Long After Dark (1982)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #20 (three weeks)
Weeks in the top-40: 11

Today's Song of the Day is by Gainesville, Florida's pride Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, who came together in the mid-70s, and released their self-titled debut album in 1976. That LP gave Petty his first American/Canadian top-40 hit with "Breakdown", as well as their first in England, "Anything That's Rock & Roll". After a second album that sold well but didn't produce any major radio hits, the band fought the record label from being reassigned to another one, and after that settled, Petty came back with the biggest album of his career, Damn The Torpedoes, which has his only top-10 hit credited with the band, "Don't Do Me Like That" in 1979. After another fight over album prices, Petty followed up with another big album, Hard Promises, with his first #1 rock hit "The Waiting" (the chart just started in 1981).

Petty and the Heartbreakers released their fifth studio album Long After Dark in November of 1982, and the first single pulled from it is the synth-driven cold rock of "You Got Lucky", written by Petty and guitarist Mike Campbell, and co-produced by the singer with Jimmy Iovine. Making a cameo in the video is the hovercar from Logan's Run...

"You Got Lucky" topped the US rock radio chart again for the group, and made the top-30 in Canada.

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Recently, Spoon side project Divine Fits have been covering the song in concert...

...as has Corey Taylor both with and without Stone Sour with a slowed down country-rock approach...

Up tomorrow: From Genesis to animal experimentations.