Songoftheday 10/13/12 - I was down my dreams were wearing thin, when you're lost where do you begin...

Air Supply - "Two Less Lonely People In The World"
from the album Now And Forever (1982)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #38 (three weeks)
Weeks in the top-40: 5

Today's Song of the Day is by Australian soft-rock kings Air Supply, who sported an amazing seven consecutive top-5 pop and adult-contemporary singles from 1980 to 1982, ending with "Even The Nights Are Better". The follow up to that hit, "Young Love", scraped the top-40 for a couple weeks in 1982.

For their third single from their Now And Forever album, the band didn't shake up a thing, with another ballad, "Two Less Lonely People In The World". Written by Neil Sedaka collaborator Howard Greenfield and Ken Hirsch (who wrote Charlene's "I've Never Been To Me"), and produced by Harry Maslin, the song played right into their mostly-female audience...

The song managed to peak at the same level as "Young Love", but stayed in the top 40 over twice as long. It also returned them back to the top-5 on the adult-contemporary chart, peaking at #4. It was also a minor hit in their native Australia. They would come back next in a very different way courtesy of Meat Loaf's Cyrano, Jim Steinman.

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..and here they are 30 theirs later in concert..

 Is it me, or are they completely Siegfried & Roy now?

Up tomorrow: Feral felines dance it up.