Songoftheday 8/9/12 - Make me feel you still love me, if it's just for one more day....

Juice Newton - "Break It To Me Gently"

from the album Quiet Lies (1982)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #11 (three weeks)

Weeks in the top-40: 10

Today's Song of the Day is the Grammy-winning cover by country/pop singer Juice Newton. As a followup to her first single off of her 1982 release Quiet Lies, "Love's Been A Little Bit Hard On Me", Newton covered a song first made famous by "Little Miss Dynamite", Brenda Lee, "Break It To Me Gently"...

Juice's version brought her to #2 on the country chart (her second highest at the time after "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)", and also became her third charttopper on the adult-contemporary (soft-rock) chart. But the song missed the pop top-10 after four straight winners, though it stayed right under at #11 for three weeks. It also won Newton her first Grammy for Best Female Country Performance the following year.

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The original of the song, written by blues musician and actor Joe Seneca, became the eighth top-10 hit for Brenda Lee, the legend of the country/pop/rock hybrid, in 1962...

Many high-profile singers have also tackled the song, including Rat Packer Dean Martin...

...and country cougar Lorrie Morgan..

..and to top it all off, here's a nine-year-old Christina Aguilera burnin' up the song...

Up tomorrow: The wife of a Journey-man scores a top-40 hit.