Songoftheday 11/28/13 - I'll tell you now and I won't tell you twice, where when and how I got some bad advice...

Tommy Shaw - "Girls With Guns"
from the album Girls With Guns (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #33 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 3

Today's Song of the Day is by the former singer and guitarist from the arena rock group Styx, Tommy Shaw, who left the band after their Caught In The Act live album in 1984. He released his first solo set that same year, and like former bandmate Dennis DeYoung, he score a top 40 hit out of the box with the title track from his debut solo set, written by Shaw and produced by Mike Stone (Queen, Asia)...

"Girls With Guns" became Shaw's first and only top-40 solo single in November of 1984, while scaling up to #6 on the rock radio format chart.

Shaw would end up having a few more minor pop hits, stopping in 1987 with "Ever Since The World Began", which peaked at #75. At the start of the next decade, he joined forces with Night Ranger's Jack Blades and guitar loon Ted Nugent in Damn Yankees, which threw a few hits in the top-40 in the early 90s. By the middle of the decade, Shaw would return to Styx, where he still performs today (with only one other original band member)..

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..and here's Tommy on American Bandstand...

Up tomorrow: The Fab Five go nuts, and get dunked.