Songoftheday 11/25/12 - Walk softly through the desert sand, careful where you tread...

Jefferson Starship - "Winds Of Change"
from the album Winds Of Change (1982)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #38 (two weeks)
Weeks in the top-40: 2

Today's Song of the Day is by San Francisco 'Summer of Love' veterans Jefferson Starship, who closed out 1982 with their lucky seventh top-40 single after changing personnel and name from the Jefferson Airplane, "Be My Lady". They followed it up with another track co-written by bassist Pete Sears and wife Jeannette, "Winds Of Change", which tacked more edgier than its predecessor....

With shared lead vocals by Grace Slick and Mickey Thomas, the song grazed the pop top-40, but did much better on rock radio, peaking at #18. In my opinion, it was Grace's last really great performance on a group single.

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..and here's the group in 1983 performing the song live..

Up tomorrow: a supreme singer cowrites her own hit.