Songoftheday 4/11/14 - I've had a lot of big dreams I've made a lot of bad moves, I know you could walk away but you never do...

Air Supply - "Just As I Am"
from the album Air Supply (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #19 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10

Today's Song of the Day is by the Australian soft-rock group Air Supply, who dominated the early 80s, placing seven consecutive singles into the top-5 on the American pop chart between 1980 and 1982. In 1983 they collaborated with Meat Loaf producer/songwriter Jim Steinman and had another massive hit with "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All". After a break from the charts for two years, they came back in 1985 with their self-titled eighth album (and fourth major one in the States), and while the musical landscape had changed wildly since then, they tried to "toughen" up their sound not by straying away from ballads but by creating a tsunami of sound behind the treacly core. It was co-written by Dick Wagner, who also help pen Alice Cooper's "power-ballad" "Only Women Bleed"...

"Just As I Am" became Air Supply's so-far final top-40 hit in July of 1985, while climbing all the way to #3 on the adult contemporary (or "easy-listening") radio chart in Billboard.

The following year the band released Hearts In Motion, but with pop music straying ever farther from adult-pop, the single from the set "Lonely Is The Night" peaked only at #76 (and #12 AC). Though they would continue touring, they wouldn't be seen again on the charts again until 2010 when their Mumbo Jumbo album spun off a couple of minor AC hits, with "Dance With Me" heading to #28.

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...and here's the band live on TV in 1986..

Up tomorrow: a Policeman steals a inspirational quote for a solo debut.