Songoftheday 4/11/17 - There's a shady place at the end of the working day, where young lovers go and this hot little trio plays...
from the album Sleeping With The Past (1989)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #28 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 5
Today's song of the day comes from Sir Elton John, whose last studio album in the 1980's, Sleeping With The Past, had scored him a pair of top-20 pop hits in the U.S. with "Healing Hands" and "Sacrifice", both of which were on a "double-sided single" that (surprisingly) became Elton's first #1 solo hit in his native Britain. The third single from the record would be the mid-tempo synth calliope-doo wop of "Club At The End Of The Street". Written by Elton and longstanding collaborator Bernie Taupin, the song featured a fully-animated video...
"Club At The End Of The Street" became the third American Top-40 pop hit from Sleeping With The Past in July of 1990. The single also climbed all the way to #2 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart. Internationally, the record topped the chart in Denmark, and made the top-40 in Canada (#12), Australia (#19), France (#24), Belgium (#24), Ireland (#27), the Netherlands (#28), and Austria (#30). In the UK, the song peaked at #47, and also just missed the top-40 in Germany at #45.
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...and here's Elton performing the song live in New York in 2003...
Up tomorrow: Cuban-American rapper deals with a a little liar.
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