Songoftheday 5/13/18 - Please don't rush in this time, don't show her how you feel...
from the album We Can't Dance (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #12 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 14
Today's song of the day comes from Genesis, whose We Can't Dance album had already scored two big pop hits with "No Son Of Mine" and the top ten "I Can't Dance". For the third single from the record, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, and Tony Banks slowed things down a bit for the ballad "Hold On My Heart". Written by the band, who produced the track with Nick Davis and Robert Colby, it's a straight-ahead adult-pop gem in the vein of their earlier hit "Throwing It All Away"...
"Hold On My Heart" became the third top-40 pop hit from We Can't Dance in July of 1992. The song ended up being the band's biggest hit on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart, spending five weeks at #1. It didn't reach their Mainstream Rock list; instead album cut "Driving the Last Spike" climbed to #25 that same month. Internationally, the single topped the chart in Canada for a week, and reached the top-40 in the Netherlands (#13), the UK (#16), Belgium (#16), France (#19), and Ireland (#20).
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Here's Genesis with the song on tour behind the album in 1992...
...and again in Germany in 2007...
Up tomorrow: Christian-pop star has no memory issues.
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