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"Endless Summer Nights" - Richard Marx
from the album Richard Marx (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #2 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 15

Today's song of the day is by Richard Marx, whose self-titled debut album in 1987 had already produced two top-5 pop hits in the U.S. with "Don't Mean Nothing" and "Should've Known Better". The third single pulled from the record was the slow-paced "Endless Summer Nights", which actually was released in the cold of January (though in California, that's relative). Written by Marx as well as co-produced with Humberto Gatica, the song was another soft-rock nugget aimed for the ladies...

"Endless Summer Nights" became the third top-5 pop hit from Marx's debut set in March of 1988, while climbing to #2 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") chart. Internationally, the song made the top-20 in both Sweden (#13) and Australia (#16), though it stalled out at #50 in the UK.

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Here's Marx touring behind the album in 1988..

...and a more recent acoustic performance in Britain...

...and with a radio appearance with Matt Scannell of the band Vertical Horizon...

...and finally, with his son at his house in 2011...

Up tomorrow: a former Policeman is requesting some organ failure.