Robbed hit of the week 2/25/13 - ZZ Top's "Sharp Dressed Man"...

ZZ Top - "Sharp Dressed Man"
from the album Eliminator (1983)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #56

This week's "robbed hit" is from the Texan blues-rock trio ZZ Top, who came back roaring in 1983 with their electrified eighth studio album Eliminator, which already scored them their third top-40 single with "Gimme All Your Lovin'". After a radio-only release of album track "Got Me Under Pressure", the band released arguably the best song of the set, "Sharp Dressed Man". With a polished up pop production that still rocked the house, the song brought back the "ZZ Girls" for the video...


ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man by ZZTop-Official

"Sharp Dressed Man" went all the way to #2 on the rock radio chart, but stalled down at #56 on the pop singles chart.It did manage to make the top-40 in Britain, their second to do so after "Gimme..."

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Brad Paisley did a pretty decent country cover of the song in 2002 for the tribute album Sharp Dressed Man....

...and here's ZZ Top themselves more recently in Texas...

That's it for tonight...I'll return tomorrow with another Song of the Day, Candletime, and my French and German music posts.. Good night!