Songoftheday 12/1/13 - We're the ones with the runaway eyes, we're the ones who can improvise...

Dan Hartman - "We Are The Young"
from the album I Can Dream About You (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #25 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 9

Today's song of the day is by the late singer/songwriter/producer Dan Hartman, who had a great 1984 already scoring the biggest hit of his solo career with "I Can Dream About You" from the movie Streets Of Fire. His follow-up to that pop smash was the freestyle/post-disco fusion of "We Are The Young", which brought him back to his solo club roots...

"We Are The Young" became Dan's third top-40 pop hit in the U.S. in December of 1984, while going all the way to #1 on Billboard's dance chart, his third to do so. The song even made an appearance on the R&B chart, peaking at #58 there as well.

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Here's Dan live on the David Letterman Show in 1984...

...and another live performance on TV...

...and finally, the club mix redone by the master Larry Levan that topped the dance charts..

Up tomorrow: "Jude" comes up on his own.