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"I Can't Dance" - Genesis
from the album We Can't Dance (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 14

Today's song of the day comes from the British band Genesis, who had transformed themselves from a progressive rock outfit to one of the biggest pop hitmakers of the 1980s. Their first album of the new decade, We Can't Dance, had already landed a top-20 pop hit in the winter of 1992 with the rather gloomy "No Son Of Mine". The second single from the record would lighten things up a little with the acerbic wit of "I Can't Dance". Written by the trio of Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks with Phil Collins providing the lyrics, the song sported a video where the guys spoof on TV ads...

"I Can't Dance" became the band's seventh and final top ten pop hit in April of 1992. The single spent three weeks at #2 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart, and crossed over to #26 on their Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") format tally. Internationally, the record went to #1 in the Netherlands and Belgium, and reached the top ten in Austria (#2), Canada (#3), Germany (#4), the UK (#7), Australia (#7), Ireland (#7), Switzerland (#8), France (#9), and New Zealand (#10). "I Can't Dance" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Group/Duo Vocal Performance, losing out to "Beauty and the Beast" from Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson.

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Here's Genesis with the song on their tour behind the album in 1992...

And from an intimate appearance from Phil in New York in 1998...

Meanwhile, Rutherford, Banks, and replacement singer Ray Wilson getting his David Cassidy groove on in Poland...

Lastly, the reunited trio closed out their Turn It On Again shows with the song...

Up tomorrow: The most outrageous of British acts recruits country royalty because she's old and righteous.