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Huey Lewis & The News - "Stuck With You"
from the album Fore! (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13

Today's Song of the Day comes from the Bay Area bar-band turned pop superstars Huey Lewis & The News, who after selling albums by the truckload of their third album Sports, with five top-40 pop hits, landed their first #1 in America with "The Power Of Love" from the movie Back To The Future. With their next album, they actually regressed back into safe "adult-pop" territory with their fourth album, which even has the dad-friendly pun name of Fore!. The first single, "Stuck With You", is a strummy sing-a-long that sonically placed it among the ilk of the mid-80s (like "We Built This City" and "Invisible Touch"), but Lewis and the News never pretended to be anything but clean-cut rockers you can bring home to mom anyway, and their utter commitment to the song turns that into an asset. And like the new pop icons of this era like Taylor Swift and Katy Perry, they knew their way around a big-budget video...

"Stuck With You" became the band's second #1 pop hit in the U.S. in September of 1986. The single also topped the Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") and peaked at #2 on the Mainstream Rock radio charts in Billboard magazine. Internationally, the record went to #1 in Canada, #2 in Australia and New Zealand, and top-20 in the UK and Ireland.

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Here's Lewis and the News live in 1987 on tour...

..and finally, Huey with an orchestra in 2003...

Up tomorrow: Canadian rockers have some memory concerns.