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Slade - "My Oh My"
from the albums Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply (1984 US) & Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome (1983 UK)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #37 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 4

Today's Song of the Day is by the veteran British glam-metal group Slade, who finally got their break in America with their top-20 pop hit "Run, Runaway". For their US follow-up the band released the track that was the albums' lead-off in Britain, "My Oh My". The anthemic ballad originally went to #2 in the UK, during the lucrative Christmas rush. Written by lead singer Noddy Holder with bassist Jim Lea, the song at the time was their biggest in their homeland in a decade...

"My Oh My" became Slade's second and so far last top-40 pop hit in August of 1984, while also reaching the same level on the rock radio format (#32). They would have a couple more minor hits, the last being "Little Sheila" the following year.

In England, they scored their latest top-40 hit in 1991 with "Radio Wall Of Sound" (#21), though their holiday single "Merry Xmas Everybody" continues to reach the singles sales charts annually.

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...and here's the band live in 1983...

Up Tomorrow: the orange-haired girl is close at hand.