SOTD - Night falls on the city, baby feels the beat, slick & sexy angel on the street..

Dr. Hook - "Baby Makes Her Blue Jeans Talk"

from the album Players In The Dark (1982)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #25 (three weeks)

weeks in the top-40: 6

Today's Song of the Day is by post-disco/rock group Dr. Hook, with their Jordache-inspired final top-40 hit. The group started out back in the early 70's, after southerners Ray Sawyer and George Cummings moved to northeast New Jersey and recruited lead singer Dennis Locouriere. At first billed as "Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show", their first hit, "Sylvia's Mother", written by writer/cartoonist Shel Silverstein, was a top-5 hit in 1972. That same year, the band's sophomore album gave them their most identifiable song of that time, "The Cover Of The Rolling Stone".After Cummings left in the mid-70's the group's music strayed from stoner rock and became softer and more influenced by disco, with songs like "When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman" and "Sexy Eyes" becoming top-10 hits. However, the early-80's anti-disco backlash hurt the band who by then was identified with the sound. "Baby Makes Her Blue Jeans Talk" tried to fit more in the cosmo-country mold, since the group did surprising get country radio play even from their more dance-oriented singles.

Now how on earth did she fit in those jeans?!?!

Lead singer Locouriere left shortly after the Players In The Dark LP, and the group fizzled out pretty much after that. However the band's iconic "Sharing The Night Together" just got play on Family Guy just last Sunday.

Up tomorrow: Giddy-Up!