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Christopher Cross - "Think Of Laura"
from the album Another Page (1983)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #9 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11

Today's Song of the Day is by soft-rock cuddle-bear Christopher Cross, who had scored two top-40 hits in 1983 from his sophomore album, the upbeat "All Right" as well as the feisty (for him) "No Time For Talk". Although the song was co-opted to be used on the hugely successful soap opera General Hospital as a "theme" for the love relationship between Luke and Laura, Cross actually wrote the song as a tribute to Laura Carter, a friend of Cross' girlfriend who was killed by a stray bullet while riding in a car with her parents. It was produced delicately by Michael Omartian...

"Think Of Laura" became Cross' final (so far) top-40 hit in February of 1984. He would have a couple more minor hits with a song from the 1984 Olympics ("A Chance For Heaven"). His last Hot 100 hit would come in 1985 with "Charm The Snake". He continues to record and tour, and for the record his surname is made up, it's really Geppert.

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Here's Chris live in 1984 with the song...

After the premature death of R&B singer Aaliyah, vocal group Boyz II Men covered the song and changed the "name"...

Up tomorrow: a country fibber.