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Wang Chung - "Dance Hall Days"
from the album Points On A Curve (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #16 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10

Today's Song of the Day is by the British new-wave group Wang Chung, who scored their first top-40 hit in the spring of 1984 with "Don't Let Go". The follow-up release, written by singer Jack Hues, was the nostalgic "Dance Hall Days", which brought them an even bigger success. This original video used rare color film footage from the director's father...

"Dance Hall Days" reached the American top-20 in July of 1984, while almost doing the same in their native Britain, topping out at #21 and becoming their only top-40 hit. The single also went to #8 on the rock radio chart, as one of the biggest new wave hits on that format, as well as topping the dance club play chart in Billboard for a week.

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There was a more cinematic video that got much more play on MTV...

..and lastly, here's the band live in 1984...

...and again last year in concert..

Up tomorrow: more new-wavers create a scene at a pool party.