Songoftheday 11/26/12 - I feel I'm hypnotized I wanna stay here for the rest of my life...

Diana Ross - "So Close"
from the album Silk Electric (1982)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #40 (two weeks)
Weeks in the top-40: 2

Today's Song of the Day is by soul/pop legend Diana Ross, who ended 1982 with a sensual top-10 written by friend Michael Jackson about "Muscles". For her followup, she released a rare song for her, co-written by herself, Bill Wray, and arranger Robert Mounsey, and produced by the singer herself. "So Close" is a simple retro-50s doo-wop-ish song that Diana coos on through, with backing vocals arranged by Luther Vandross...

"So Close" naturally did the best on adult-contemporary (soft-rock) radio, where it peaked up at #13, and at pop radio, where it made the top-40 for a couple weeks. However, since R&B radio was at time entrenched in the funk, it stalled at #76, and just missed the top-40 in Britain. And I'm still surprised this album remains criminally out of print in the States...

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..and here is Miss Ross performing the song in her historic 1983 concert in Central Park..

Up tomorrow: the Detroit rocker, still.