Songoftheday 12/28/12 - You could never know what it's like, your blood like winter freezes just like ice..

Elton John - "I'm Still Standing"
from the album Too Low For Zero (1983)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #12 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 12


 By the way, this is post #2000 on my little ol' blog. Wow. Thanks to anybody who's found their way here, I hope I've been at least adequately entertaining.


Today's Song of the Day is by British singer/songwriter/piano master Elton John, whose 1982 album Jump Up! signaled a mini-comeback for him, scoring two top-20 hits with "Empty Garden" and "Blue Eyes", and reuniting him with songwriting collaborator Bernie Taupin (who co-wrote the former).

With his seventeenth studio set, Too Low For Zero, and not only solely counted on Taupin for all the lyrics on the album, but recruited his old bandmates like Nigel Olsson, Davey Johnstone, and Kiki Dee for a return to his wheelhouse. To herald this return to form, Elton released "I'm Still Standing" as the first single from the album. Written by Taupin about recovering from his divorce, Elton went to the French Riviera to film the gayest video I've ever seen in my life...

Yes, you saw it right - the guy in the black unitard/sometimes red pants is Bruno Tonioli of Dancing With The Stars fame.

"I'm Still Standing" did pretty well for Elton, giving him a another top-20 pop hit in the States, a top-10 single in Britain, Germany, and Australia, and going to #1 on the Canadian singles chart. It also made the top-40 on the mainstream rock and adult-contemporary (soft-rock) radio formats in the US.

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In 1996, Weather Girl supreme Martha Wash covered the song for the movie The First Wives Club...

The gone-in-a-minute TV musical Viva Laughlin included the song in one of the two episodes that actually aired in the US, to the glory of Soup fans...

and the song finally made into the hands of Glee, where Quinn and Artie sang it after her accident...

...Lastly, here's Elton himself at Wembley in London in 1984 live...

Up tomorrow: Aussie rockers can use the Express Lane.