Songoftheday 7/5/13 -Bet you got a good gun bet you know how to have some fun, and then you turn it around on me because I'm better Than the rest of the men...

Culture Club - "Miss Me Blind"
from the album Colour By Numbers (1983)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #5 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 12

Today's Song of the Day is by the gender-bending British pop group Culture Club, whose sophomore album Colour By Numbers had always given them their first #1 pop single in the US with "Karma Chameleon" as well as a top-10 hit with "Church Of the Poison Mind".  The third release was the lite dance track "Miss Me Blind", with Nile Rodgers-esque guitars and future top-10 singer Jermaine Stewart ("We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off") on background vocals...

"Miss Me Blind" became the band's third top-10 pop hit in the States from the album. It went to #6 in the Canada and #17 in Australia. As a double-sided single (kiddies, ask your parents), it peaked at #10 on the dance chart in Billboard, while on the  adult-contemporary (easy-listening) format it would top off at #12. And no doubt helped by Stewart's backup vocals, the single would be their only top-10 R&B hit, peaking at #8. "Miss Me Blind" would turn out to be their last top-10 pop hit.

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Here's the band live with the song in 1984...

...and again in 2002...

Up tomorrow: Take a look at that drummer now.