Songoftheday 11/29/14 - Tonight it's very clear as we're both lying here there's so many things I wanna say...

Peter Cetera - "The Glory Of Love"
from the albums Solitude/Solitaire and Karate Kid II (Original Sountrack) (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 14

Today's Song of the Day is by singer/songwriter Peter Cetera, who had been a founding member of the seminal jazz/rock fusion band Chicago since 1967. With his recognizable high-pitched vocals complimenting the gruff voice of Terry Kath (and later Bill Champlin), Cetera was the focus of the "soft" side of the band's music, although he could definitely jam out in songs like the top-10 single "25 Or 6 To 4". As the band's chart success was a little dimmer during the disco/post-disco years, Peter released a self-titled solo album in 1981, that got little notice besides a top-10 rock radio hit with "Livin' In The Limelight". He would stick around for two more albums with Chicago under soft-rock producer David Foster before leaving permanently for a solo career in 1985.

The following year, Peter released what would be his first solo pop hit, a song featured in The Karate Kid II movie. "Glory Of Love", written by the singer and producer along with Diane Nini, was a ringer for the ballads Foster helped Chicago get a second wind with on their last two albums...

"Glory Of Love" became Cetera's first #1 solo hit in August of 1986, after it spent five weeks on top of the adult contemporary radio chart in Billboard magazine. It also was his only solo British hit at #3 (most likely helped by the movie tie-in). Despite earning nominations for a Grammy, Golden Globe, and an Oscar, the song came up short on all three.

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..and here's Peter singing "Glory Of Love" in concert...

In 2009, Australian boy-band North covered "Glory Of Love" for a single that was a hit all over southeast Asia...

Two Canadian acts have charted in their home country using the song. First, soft-rock singer Zameer covered the song outright in 2011...


Then that same year hip-hop artist Karl Wolf interpolated the chorus for his top-20 Canadian hit "Ghetto Love" featuring Kardinal Offishal...

Up tomorrow: a former backup star has a problem with nudity.