Songoftheday 6/24/14 - When I go out I can see the world from inside, without a doubt I can shake my head and scream and shout...

Corey Hart - "Boy In The Box"
from the album Boy In The Box (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #26 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 6

Today's Song of the Day comes from Canadian singer/songwriter Corey Hart, whose second album had given him his biggest hit ever, "Never Surrender", in the summer of 1985. For its follow-up the album's title track was released, a frenetic pop/rock song written by the singer with the paranoid themes that pervaded his first album...

"Boy In The Box" became Corey's fourth top-40 pop hit in the U.S. in November of 1985. The 12" remix also climbed the Dance Club Play chart in Billboard magazine up to #19. In his native Canada, the single was his third top-10 hit, peaking at #4.

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Here's Corey giving his miming all for German television in 1985...

...and his 12" remix that made the dance charts...

 Here he is actually live on an audio clip from 1987 in Japan...

...and finally Corey from Toronto in 2012...

Up tomorrow: the Queen of Soul won't be fooled. Again.