Songoftheday 12/10/13 - She says her love for me could never die, but that'd change if she ever found about you and I....

Bryan Adams - "Run To You"
from the album Reckless (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #6 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 12

Today's Song of the Day is by Canadian rock singer/songwriter/guitarist Bryan Adams, whose third album Cuts Like A Knife broke his career in the States, with three top-40 hits in "Straight From The Heart", the title track, and "This Time".  After his tour behind the album, Adams recorded and released his fourth effort Reckless at the end of 1984. The album was a big-sounding anthemic arena rock affair, with Bob Clearmountain again assisting on production, and the first single, "Run To You", was a tornado of angst and emotion that swept us up at the end of the year...

"Run To You" became Bryan's second top-ten pop single in the US in January of 1985, while topping the rock radio chart for a month in November/December of the previous year. In his native Canada, the single peaked at #4, while across the pond in Britain it stalled right under the top-10 at #11.

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British dance act Rage remade "Run To You" into a rave anthem that went to #3 on the UK singles chart in 1992...

Lo-fi artist Lou Barlow of the band Sebadoh took the song in a completely different direction as the lead track in his 1994 album...

In 2003, German eurodance act Novaspace went to #38 on that country's singles chart with another club version...

Even Brit-dance-pop queens Bananarama got in on the "Run To You" action, releasing a cover to promote their Viva album in 2009...

In 2012, rapper Flo Rida and LMFAO's Redfoo interpolated the record for their album track "Run", which did make the top-40 in Canada at #29 and #44 in Australia..

...and finally here's Bryan in concert with "Run To You" in the early 90s...

...and again in Ireland in 2000...

Up tomorrow: A girl puts on a wedding dress and conquers the world.