Songoftheday 9/3/14 - Give me what you can tonight, time is all we have to play....
The Hooters - "Day By Day"
from the album Nervous Night (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #18 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 7
Today's Song of the Day comes from the Philadelphia bar-band turned rock stars the Hooters, who finally broke through with their Live Aid opening performance and hit single "And We Danced" in 1985. To follow up that classic party-ender the group released "Day By Day" another popular album cut that had been played on end in the tri-state area before getting a national audience. Written by the band's core of Eric Bazillian and Rob Hyman along with producer Rick Chertoff, the single was a sunny and frenetic counterpart to their former hit...
"Day By Day" did "And We Danced" one better by reaching the top-20 on the American pop chart in February of 1986, while matching the former hit's rank at #3 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart. The record also snuck on to the Canadian chart at #66. All in all, it would be the band's highest rank on the Hot 100 in their career.
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...and here's the band live in their hometown for the concert simulcast on MTV in 1987...
...and again in Philly in 1990...
Up tomorrow: Captain Fantastic sings about a Soviet.
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