Songoftheday 10/24/13 - I just think of you and I start to glow and I need your light and baby you know...

Madonna - "Lucky Star"
from the album Madonna (1983)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #4 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 12

Today's Song of the Day was the third hit pop single from one of the biggest acts of the rock era, Madonna. After reaching the top-20 with "Holiday", then popping into the top-10 for a week with "Borderline", the singer released her first self-written hit record, "Lucky Star", which was remixed by then-boyfriend Jellybean Benitez after not liking the original production by Reggie Lucas. The stark video, with just her and two other dancers on a white backdrop, was a classic example of "less is more", allowing the MTV public to concentrate on MADONNA the performer, and not the song...

"Lucky Star" became Madonna's first single to reach the top-5 in October of 1984. It topped the dance club list as the B-side of her "Holiday" single. It actually went as high as #19 on the adult-contemporary radio format, and even just missed the top-40 on the R&B chart, topping out at #42. In the UK, where the single was released the year before to meager results, returned to the chart at #14.

This was definitely the highlight of her debut album for me. the busy background production drew from freestyle while keeping the tempo slower and funkier to tip a hat to disco.

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Madonna has taken "Lucky Star" on tour throughout her career...here she is back on her show in 1985..

...and again during her Who's That Girl tour in 1987..

She finally brought the song back in 2006 for her Confessions tour...

Up tomorrow: A British singer from Trinidad goes for some royalty.