Songoftheday 2/4/13 - Downtown we'll drown we're in our never splendor, flowers, showers who's got the new boy gender?...

Culture Club - "I'll Tumble 4 Ya!"
from the album Kissing To Be Clever (1982)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #9 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 12

Today's Song of the Day was the third American hit single from British new-wave group Culture Club's debut album, Kissing To Be Clever. After the first two soulful (and a little mournful) songs, "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" and "Time (Clock Of The Heart)", they released the jubilant "I'll Tumble 4 Ya!" in the US and Canada only.

(Is that Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols in the start?)

"I'll Tumble 4 Ya" became the band's third top-10 hit in America (the first group to do this on a debut album since the Beatles), and went to #5 in Canada.


...and here's the boys in concert in 1983, I totally forget the girls' screaming (why?)...

Up Tomorrow: our country on the edge.