Songoftheday 7/13/13 - My 16th birthday I was so shy Not yet a man but ready to try...

Kool & The Gang - "Tonight"
from the album In The Heart (1983)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #13 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10

Today's Song of the Day is by the New Jersey-based funk/soul group Kool & The Gang, who had released their seventeenth studio album In The Heart at the end of 1983, and after a string of disco hits scored a top-10 single with their (sort-of-midtempo) love ballad "Joanna". For its followup they went back to the dance floor with "Tonight", written and produced by the band with Jim Bonnefond...

"Tonight" brought the band back to the top-20 on the pop chart in May of 1984, while landing them another hit on R&B radio, peaking at #7. In England, it was a "double-A-side" single with "Joanna" (kids, ask your folks) and went to #2.

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...here's the band live in New Orleans promoting the album in 1983...


...and finally what's an early 80s song without an appearance on Solid Gold?

Up tomorrow: Progressive pop outfit wants you to shut up.