Songoftheday 3/20/14 - There's trouble on the streets tonight I can feel it in my bones, I had a premonition that he should not go alone...

Glenn Frey - "Smuggler's Blues"
from the albums The Allnighter (1984) and Miami Vice (Original Soundtrack) (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #12 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11

Today's Song of the Day is by former Eagles singer/songwriter/guitarist Glenn Frey, who had begun 1985 with his first solo top-10 hit, "The Heat Is On" from the movie Beverly Hills Cop. After that, Glenn went back to his second solo album The Allnighter and released a third single (the first, "Sexy Girl", had gone top-20 in 1984). "Smuggler's Blues", written by the artist with long-time collaborator Jack Tempchin, was meant to be an ultra-smooth take on the high-stakes drug life I'm certain he help finance with his former band's habits...


Glenn Frey - Smuggler's Blues by jpdc11

"Smuggler's Blues" became Glenn's fifth single to make the pop top-20 in June of 1984, while reaching #13 on the Mainstream Rock radio chart in Billboard. Internationally, the song made the top 40 in Canada and England, the latter being only his second after "The Heat Is On" and final one there.

The cinematic (albeit overacted) video must have caught the attention of the makers of the hit TV show Miami Vice, who brought Glenn in for his own episode built around the song, which would also find its way on to the hit soundtrack for the series.

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...and here's the album audio with much better sound...

Up tomorrow: A big-voiced gal's new situation is that she can't be seen.