Songoftheday 6/7/18 - I've been where you are before no one understands it more, you fear every step you take so sure that your heart will break...

"Take This Heart" - Richard Marx
from the album Rush Street (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #20 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13

Today's song of the day comes from pop singer/songwriter Richard Marx, whose third album Rush Street expanded his sound and earned him two big pop hits already with "Keep Coming Back" and the top ten story-song "Hazard". The third release from the record would be the uptempo pop/rock track "Take This Heart". Written and produced by Marx, the song sported a music video that had the unbelievable premise of the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series. Imagine that...

"Take This Heart" became the third top-20 pop hit from Rush Street in August of 1992. The song climbed all the way to #4 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart as well. Internationally, the single peaked at #4 in Canada, and reached the top-40 in Australia (#11), the UK (#13), and Ireland (#21). The fourth single from Rush Street, the angsty "Chains Around My Heart", just missed the pop top-40 at #44, but went all the way to #9 on the Adult Contemporary list, and #29 on the British singles chart.

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Here's Richard live in 2012...

and another show in England two years later, where he goes acoustic...

And finally, the "alternate ending" version of the video, where Bob Uecker wings it...

Up tomorrow: Hard rock giants get messed up in come colder weather.