Songoftheday 5/20/13 - Another morning you are on my mind, takin' up my time through all the day...

Jeffrey Osborne - "Stay With Me Tonight"
from the album Stay With Me Tonight (1983)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #30 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 8

Today's Song of the Day is by R&B singer Jeffrey Osborne, who left the funk group L.T.D. ("(Every Time I Turn Around) Back In Love Again") to start a solo career, and with his second solo album already hooked his third top-40 pop hit with "Don't You Get So Mad". For the next release Jeffrey put out the title track as the next single, produced by George Duke (seen on keyboards in the video) and written by Raymond Jones, it was his most pop-influenced uptempo single yet...

"Stay With Me Tonight" spent over five months on the pop chart, with two of those in the top-40 itself in January of 1984 (up to that point his longest). The song also peaked at #4 on the R&B chart, and even crossed to the dance club chart at #31. Across the Atlantic in the UK, it was his second top-20 hit reaching #18.

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Here's Jeffrey on Soul Train getting his lipsynch on..

...and more recently with a definitely live (and pretty damn good) jazzed up version..

Up tomorrow: British New Romantics strike it rich again.