Songoftheday 10/4/15 - I feel the night expode when we're together, emotion overload in the heat of pleasure....

"Tell It To My Heart" - Taylor Dayne
from the album Tell It To My Heart (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 15

Today's song of the day comes from Taylor Dayne, who started her career in Long Island, New York as a rock singer before going it solo as a dance act in the mid-80s. She released her debut album, Tell It To My Heart, in 1987, in the midst of the "freestyle" dance music boom, and the first single and title track drew from the genre's frenetic tempo and drama-filled chord changes and added her much-stronger voice which growled out like a lion, commanding, not asking. Written by Ernie Gold and Seth Swirsky, the track was clubby enough for dance stations, yet a bit hard enough for standard pop radio...

"Tell It To My Heart" became Taylor's first top-10 pop hit in America in January of 1988. The song also climbed to #4 on Billboard's Dance Club Play chart as well. Internationally, the record topped the singles chart in Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, while making it to #3 in the UK, and top-10 in Canada (#9), Australia (#10), Sweden (#3), Ireland (#2), Belgium (#2), and Spain (#5).

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Here's the extended mix that hit the top-5 on the dance chart in 1987...

...and the "House Of Hearts" mix off the same 12"...

British trance act Urban Hype interpolated  part of the song into their single "Living In A Fantasy", which peaked at #57 in the UK in 1992 (it comes in at the 2 minute mark)...

In 1996, the song was remixed yet again by T-empo for Dayne's Greatest Hits album, and it resulted in climbing back on to the British singles chart at #23 and #10 on Billboard's Dance Club Play chart...

British Eurodance singer Kelly Llorenna covered "Tell It To My Heart" in 2002, and reached #9 on the UK chart...

The Royal Gigolos from Germany also put out a version of the track in 2006 which was a European club hit...

That same year, former lead singer of the German pop duo Modern Talking, Thomas Anders, reimagined the song as a lounge number for his covers set Songs Forever...

...and I'll leave you with Taylor performing the song live in concert in 2006...

Up tomorrow:  Midwestern rocker throws some fireworks.