Songoftheday 11/15/13 - The first time I saw you oh you looked so fine, and I had a feeling one day you'd be mine...

Lionel Richie - "Penny Lover"
from the album Can't Slow Down (1983)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #8 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13

Today's Song of the Day is by Lionel Richie, whose "outrageously" popular Can't Slow Down had already spun off four big and stylistically different hits with the chart-topping "All Night Long (All Night)" and "Hello" as well as the rocker "Running With the Night" and the country-tinged "Stuck On You". For the fifth and final single from the album the former Commodore released the middle-of-the-road pop of "Penny Lover", written by Lionel and his wife at the time Brenda Richie, and produced by the singer with James Anthony Carmichael. The campy video that accompanied it was directed by Bob Giraldi, who did Pat Benatar's "Love Is A Battlefield", as well as Richie's "Hello" and "Running With The Night"...

"Penny Lover" went to #8 on both the pop and R&B charts in American in December of 1984, while also topping the adult-contemporary (easy-listening) radio chart as well, his eighth out of nine post-Commodores singles to do so. Internationally, the single went top-20 in Britain and Holland, and top-40 in Germany as well.

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...when Lionel did his TV special to promote his country remake album Tuskegee, he enlisted the Band Perry for "Penny Lover"...

Up tomorrow: the Boy and the band chant for peace.