Songoftheday 7/30/12 - I can live without love if I wanted to in this lonely room...

Paul Davis - "Love Or Let Me Be Lonely"

from the album Cool Night (1981)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #40 (two weeks)

Weeks in the top-40: 2

Today's Song of the Day is by soft-rock/country singer and songwriter Paul Davis. Davis followed up his top-10 hit "'65 Love Affair" with a remake of a hit from 1970 by the R&B group the Friends of Distinction. It would be the third top-40 hit from his Cool Night album, his last with Arista records and last pretty much as a pop artist.

The song grazed the top-40 for a couple weeks, but made it as high as #11 on the adult-contemporary chart, and was my favorite track from his album.

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The Friends of Distinction original made it as high as #6 in 1970, and was co-written by Jerry Peters, who also wrote their amazing "Going In Circles"...

Paul would go on to duet on a couple country hits, but sadly pass on at the age of 60 in 2008.

Up tomorrow: A father an daughter team, ERMEHGERD!