Songoftheday 5/31/15 - She was born in a handbag, love left on a doorstep...

"Day-In Day-Out" - David Bowie
from the album Never Let Me Down (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #21 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 7

Today's SOTD comes from art-rock icon David Bowie, who lowered himself to cheese it up for charity with friend Mick Jagger on their 1985 cover of "Dancing In The Street" that made the American top-10. His next studio album, Never Let Me Down, came out in 1987, and the first single from the record, "Day-In Day-Out", like "Let's Dance", used the underbelly of civilized culture to backdrop his video...

"Day-In Day-Out" peaked right under the top-20 on the American pop chart  in May of 1987. The single did better on rock radio, reaching #3 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and #10 on their Dance Club Play list. Internationally, the song went top-10 in Belgium and Sweden, and top-20 in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Bowie's native Britain. The single deserved better, but that hard edge of the video as well as the song probably turned off some MTV viewers.

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and here's David performing the song live...

...and the top-10 dance remix of the track..

Up tomorrow: the 80s soundtrack king finds compromise at an arm-wrestling competition.