Songoftheday 2/24/14 - We want to multiply are you going do it, I know you qualify but are you gonna do it...

The Power Station - "Some Like It Hot"
from the album The Power Station (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #6 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 12

Today's Song of the Day is by the rock/funk "supergroup" The Power Station, which came together after the British new wave chart kings Duran Duran, took a break after their tour behind their successful Seven & The Ragged Tiger album in 1984. Guitarist Andy Taylor and bass player John Taylor (no relation) choose to work together on a project that would explore their interest in a more heavier rock style of music, and recruited Chic drummer Tony Thompson to provide the whomping drums that would pervade their recordings. Originally meant to feature a myriad of guest singers, instead they chose suave British blue-eyed soul singer Robert Palmer to record the entire debut album as lead singer, and Thompson's Chic bandmate Bernard Edwards to produce the disc. The first single from the set, "Some Like It Hot", written by the Taylors with Palmer, featured transgender model Tula in the video along with some really racy animation...

"Some Like It Hot" became the Power Station's first top 10 hit in America in May of 1985, while also reaching #17 on the club dance play chart in Billboard and #34 on the Mainstream Rock radio list. In the UK, home to 3/4 of the band, the single manages to make it to #14, while internationally the single went top-10 in Canada, Belgium, and Austria.

It's still a hidden milestone in music video for a transgender model to have such a prominent and sensual role in this video. And that's the awesome.

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Here's Robert Palmer with reggae band UB40 performing the track in concert in 1988..

..and Andy, Robert, and Tony on TV in Japan in 1997..

Up tomorrow: A-list Philly duo wants things to remain hush-hush.