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"Love Zone" - Billy Ocean
from the album Love Zone (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #10 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11

Today's Song of the Day comes from Caribbean-born singer Billy Ocean, whose 1986 Love Zone album had already churned out two big hits with "When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going" and "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)". The third single from the set, the title track from the album, was a quiet storm nugget written by Ocean with his producers Barry Eastmond and Wayne Braithwaite (just like "There'll Be Sad Songs"), and was more moody that his previous hits...

"Love Zone" became Billy's sixth top-10 pop hit in America in September of 1986. The record of course did even better on R&B stations, topping the "Black Singles" chart, and also reached #5 on the Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart in Billboard magazine. Internationally the record was less successful (probably due to its softer R&B sound), reaching the top-20 in Canada, and top-40 in New Zealand, but stopping at #49 in the UK. But out of his songs from the album this one probably ages the best...

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...and here's Billy in concert in 2008 with the song...

Up tomorrow: A Reese's cup of rap and rock revolutionizes pop music.