Songoftheday 4/29/13 - East side, West side give up, or surrender, been down, but I still rock on...

Michael Stanley Band - "My Town"
from the album You Can't Fight Fashion (1983)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #39 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 1

Today's Song of the Day is by Cleveland's pride Michael Stanley, who started out in a band called Silk in the late 60s before a brief unsuccessful solo stint in the early 70s. Regrouping with what would become the Michael Stanley Band, they would release their first album together in 1975. However radio success would come five years and a bunch of member changes later, when in 1980 their single "He Can't Love You" from their fourth studio album Heartland became their first and biggest pop hit, reaching #33 on the Hot 100. A few more albums and minor hit singles later, Stanley and the band emerged with You Can't Fight Fashion, produced by big-sound producer Bob Clearmountain and with a first single that was tailored for radio play across the nation with specialized version with the town inserted on "My Town" (I still remember the "Philadelphia!" and "Trenton!" put into the ones near me...

"My Town" spent a solitary week in the Top-40. The Band would go on to have one more minor hit with "Someone Like You" before splitting up in 1987. Keyboardist Kevin Raleigh would go on to write a song called "Moonlight On Water" that would be a moderate hit for both himself and Laura Branigan at the beginning of the 90s.

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Stanley remains a fan favorite in the Cleveland area...here he is in concert in 2010...


Up tomorrow:The Fab Five are together again, with reptiles.