Songoftheday 5/30/14 - I'm fading out of sight my wheels are the only sound, runnin' at the speed of sight I can't slow down...

Michael McDonald - "No Lookin' Back"
from the album No Lookin' Back (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #34 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 4

Today's Song of the Day comes from the soulful singer with the awesome hair and beard Michael McDonald, who left the Doobie Brothers in the early 80s to pursue a solo career, and scored a top-10 hit out of the box in 1982 with his cover of "I Keep Forgettin'".  A year later he returned to the top-40 with his duet with James Ingram, "Yah Mo B There".

In 1985 Michael released his second solo album, which he co-produced and co-wrote all the songs. The first single from the project was a collaboration with fellow yacht-rock star Kenny Loggins, who also recorded a version of "No Lookin' Back" for his own Vox Humana album the year before. The pair wrote "No Lookin' Back with keyboardist Ed Sanford, who had a big hit of his own in the late 70s with "Smoke From A Distant Fire"....

"No Lookin' Back" became McDonald's third solo top-40 hit in September of 1985. It became his biggest success on rock radio, peaking at #4 on Billboard magazine's Mainstream Rock chart, while also climbing to #18 on their adult contemporary radio list.

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Here's Loggins' version from 1984, which honestly I prefer....

Here's McDonald on Soul Train, as one of the few non-African Americans to get love from the show..

...and finally on tour in 1986...

Up tomorrow: a Policeman builds a protective coronary wall.