Songoftheday 1/11/14 - Where I come from there's a place called heaven, that's the place where all the good children go...

Sheena Easton - "Sugar Walls"
from the album A Private Heaven (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #9 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 9

Today's Song of the Day is by Scottish singer Sheena Easton, whose fifth album A Private Heaven had already scored a top-10 pop hit with "Strut". For it's follow-up she released her most provocative song yet, the Prince-penned "Sugar Walls". Using the moniker Alexander Nevermind, "Sugar Walls" was a veiled ode to a woman's private parts, so much that it invoked the wrath of Tipper Gore and the PRMC during the record censorship furor...

"Sugar Walls" became Sheena's sixth top-10 single in March of 1985, while also landing her first and so far biggest R&B hit, peaking at #3 on that format's chart in Billboard. It also was her sole single to top the dance club play chart.

It's funny that in today's times this song would be easy-listening material.

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...and here she is in concert in Tokyo...

Up tomorrow: A flown Eagle gets his Axel hot.