Songoftheday 8/20/13 - The language of love slips from my lover's tongue, cooler than ice cream and warmer than the sun....

Eurythmics - "Who's That Girl?"
from the album Touch (1983)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #21 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 7

Today marks the 500th "Song of the Day" I've done since the end of March of last year. Thank you for coming by to share the tunes and nostalgia.

Today's Song of the Day is by the new-wave duo Eurythmics, who overcame any threat of "sophomore slump" with their top-10 hit "Here Comes The Rain Again" (probably the song of theirs most played by radio today). For their followup in America, the pair went with the song they actually released first from the Touch album in Britain, the moody "Who's That Girl?", along with a gender-bending music video that's a nice counterpoint to yesterday's Culture Club drag madness, with celeb guest spots including all four members of Bananarama (with Dave Stewart's future wife Siobhan Fahey and her eventual band replacement Jacqui O'Sullivan), and Boy George's "gal-pal" Marilyn. And while Dave was getting all the girls, Annie Lennox got to "kiss" her own self, decades before Lady GaGa thought about "You & I"...

"Who's That Girl?" became the duo's fourth top-40 pop hit in the US in June of 1984. As the lead single from the album internationally, it did much better, peaking at #3 in the UK and #5 in neighboring Ireland (both better than "Here Comes..." did). It also made top-40 in most of the rest of Europe, Canada, and the Antipodean nations as well.

The song probably missed the top-20 in the States for being a little too moody, though it's lyrical content belies its repetitive chorus. Their next single would be much happier...

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Here's Annie and Dave promoting the song on Top of the Pops...


...and here's a stripped down version from their 1987 tour...


Up tomorrow.....Punk-rocker gets weirdly anatomical.