Songoftheday 7/22/12 - well just look at that girl with the lights comin' up in her eyes...

Jackson Browne - "Somebody's Baby"

from the album Fast Times At Ridgemont High (Original Soundtrack) (1982)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7 (three weeks)

Weeks in the top-40: 12

Today's Song of the Day is by singer/songwriter Jackson Browne, who was born in Germany to a military family in 1948. His first break was as a songwriter in the late 60's, when he penned songs covered by Linda Ronstadt, Joan Baez, and the Byrds. He released his first self-titled album in 1972, and scored a top-10 pop hit from it, "Doctor My Eyes".Throughout the seventies his profile as an album-rock artist grew, as 1976's The Pretender became his first top-5 album, Four years later, his LP Hold Out topped the charts, but during all this time Browne's singles were middle-grade hits on pop radio.

Two years after Hold Out, Browne was consigned for a track on the teen comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, along with other rockers like Don Henley, Stevie Nicks, and the GoGos. The result was "Somebody's Baby", his most mainstream song as yet, and it became his highest-charting single ever..

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In 1996, New Jersey alt-rock outfit Yo La Tengo took on the track..

In 2001 the song was used for another teen film, this time Not Another Teen Movie, done by Phantom Planet...

And in 2009, Eric Heatherly put a country spin on the song...

Up Tomorrow:  a Jackson whips it good....