Songoftheday 11/22/15 - Time out world in a hurry, there's more love than money changing hands...

"Twilight World" - Swing Out Sister
from the album It's Better To Travel (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #31 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 3

Today's Song of the Day comes from the British jazz-pop ensemble Swing Out Sister, who had broke big in America with one of the freshest and enjoyable songs of the decade in "Breakout". While in their homeland the follow-up was the seductive "Surrender", which made the top-10 there, in the U.S. the second single was the epic "Twilight World", written by lead singer Corinne Drewery and bandmates Andy Connell and Martin Jackson. Produced lushly by Paul Staveley O'Duffy, it was meant to keep the momentum going with a more uptempo number...

"Twilight World" became Swing Out Sister's second and so-far most recent top-40 pop hit in February of 1988. The song also climbed to #7 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart, while the 12" remix was the biggest club hit from the album, making it to #9. In the UK, as the third single, it did comparably, stopping at #32.

The trio would release "Surrender" in the States next, missing the pop chart but reaching #37 on the adult contemporary list. A final single, "Fooled By A Smile", just missed the British top-40 at #43. They put out their sophomore effort, Kaleidoscope World, in 1989; by that time Jackson left the act as a duo. While in Europe the lead track was "You On My Mind", which hit the top-10 in Germany and #28 in the UK, America received the more "Breakout"-sounding "Waiting Game", which stopped out at #86 on the pop chart, #33 Dance, and #6 AC. The pair started out the 90s with a revival of sorts, going to #1 on the American adult-contemporary list with their remake of "Am I The Same Girl", which almost gave them a top-40 hit at #45. With another soul cover, this time in 1994 of "La-La Means I Love You" from the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, SOS scored their most recent British top-40 hit at #37.  In American, Corinne and Andy popped on to the Adult chart at #30 with "Somewhere In The World" in 1997. They continue to record and tour, being very successful still in the Far East and preparing a new record as we speak.

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Here's the 12" remix from Bruce Forrest and Frank Heller that made the top ten on the dance chart...

...and the group appearing on TopPop promoting the single...

...and finally, Corinne and Andy performing "Twilight World" along with "Breakout" live in 2010 in Tokyo...

Up tomorrow: A Trinidadian pop star has an automotive request.