Songoftheday 7/12/13 - I can see the path you're cutting it cost me a little piece of my heart...

Rick Springfield - "Love Somebody"
from the album Hard To Hold (Original Soundtrack) (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #5 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 12

Today's Song of the Day is by singer/actor Rick Springfield, who by 1984 was riding high on a double career as a soap opera star on General Hospital as Dr. Noah Drake as well as a pop star whose 1983 album Living In Oz spun off three more top-40 hits with "Affair Of The Heart", "Human Touch", and "Souls". The next year, Rick took a break from the show while he starred in the movie Hard To Hold, which was released in April of 1984. The soundtrack was almost a proper Springfield set in itself, as seven of the ten tracks were his. The first single released from it was "Love Somebody", another tsunami of power-pop written by the singer, and with a video ready to promote the movie to his throngs of fans on MTV...

"Love Somebody" became Rick's fifth top-10 single in May of 1984, while also reaching #13 on the rock radio chart. Internationally, while it made the top-40 in places like Canada and Germany, the song barely scraped the chart in England and Springfield's native Australia. So far, it's his last single to reach the American top-10.

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Here's Rick live in concert with it in 1985...

..and again at Live Aid...

....with an acoustic take on Regis and Kelly...

...and recently with the Foo Fighters, who he appeared in the documentary Sound City with...


...Up tomorrow: Jersey funksters are out for the evening.