Songoftheday 1/25/14 - If it seems like Ive been lost in "let's remember", if you think Im feeling older and missing my younger days...

Billy Joel - "Keeping The Faith"
from the album An Innocent Man (1983)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #18 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10

Today's Song of the Day is by singer/songwriter/piano man Billy Joel, whose retro-rific album An Innocent Man had already produced five top-40 singles, including the chart-topping "Tell Her About It", the harmonic "Uptown Girl", the dramatic "An Innocent Man", the a cappella wonder of "The Longest Time", and the harmonica-tinged "Leave a Tender Moment Alone". Proving it's status as one of the biggest albums of the decade, a sixth single from the ten-track set was issued with "Keeping The Faith". With a different mix than on the album, and a campy video featuring a courtroom of 60s and 50s  music lookalikes with Billy on trial, and with it he scored another hit...

"Keeping the Faith" became Joel's sixth top-40 hit from An Innocent Man in March of 1985, while going all the way to #3 on the adult-contemporary radio chart in Billboard. It also managed to make the top-40 Down Under in New Zealand.

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Here's the "Special Mix" for the single that was played on the radio and on the 7" single...

...and finally, here's Billy live in 2011 at Shea...

Up tomorrow: Rock queen goes to the hop for some vowels.