Songoftheday 3/25/14 - If she called me I'd be there I'd come running anywhere, she's all I need all my life I feel so good if I just say the word...

Phil Collins - "Sussudio"
from the album No Jacket Required (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 14

Today's Song of the Day is by British singer/drummer/frontman for the prog-rock group Genesis Phil Collins, whose third album, No Jacket Required, had already scored him a #1 hit in the U.S. with the ballad "One More Night". To follow that up he released the single that was the first from the album in the UK, "Sussudio". Basically a re-write of Prince's "1999"'s synth power-chords coupled with an infectious bassline all provided by the System's David Frank (who would go on to score a hit of his own with "Don't Disturb This Groove"), somehow grabbed ahold of my high-school brain and wouldn't let go...

"Sussudio" became Phil's third #1 pop single and second from the album in July of 1985, while becoming quite the crossover hit, reaching #7 on the R&B chart, #10 on the Rock radio chart, #4 on the Dance club play list, and #30 on the Adult Contemporary radio chart in Billboard magazine. Internationally, the single topped the singles chart in Ireland, and went top-40 in Australia, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Surprisingly as the lead-off single in Britain the song stopped at #12.

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Here's Phil on tour behind the album in 1985...