Songoftheday 2/22/14 - Games I never used to play cause everytime I'd lose, it just turns out that way...

Greg Kihn - "Lucky"
from the album Citizen Kihn (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #30 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 4

Today's Song of the Day is by Bay Area rocker Greg Kihn, who had scored a huge hit in 1983 with "Jeopardy", which peaked one notch away from the top spot. However, Greg had troubles following up that single, and his next album even failed to put a single in the whole top-100. Leaving from local label Berserkley to EMI America, Kihn commemorated his fresh start with the song "Lucky", complete with big-idea storyboarded music video (one of the cheesiest of the 80s)....

"Lucky" did manage to bring Kihn back to the pop top 40 in April of 1985, though perhaps it was too much of a paler knockoff of "Jeopardy" to do any better. It did even better in the dance clubs, peaking at #16, while stopping at #24 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart. It would be his last hurrah in the top-40, though the following year his next EMI album sneaked the title track, "Love and Rock and Roll", onto the Hot 100 at #92 and the rock list at #50. He's still a big draw in the San Jose area, and continues to tour...

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And here's Greg and the band on Solid Gold..

Up tomorrow: a late great disco man is reflexive.