Songoftheday 5/7/14 - They came at night leaving fear behind shadows were on the ground, nobody knew where to find him no evidence was found...

Phil Collins - "Don't Lose My Number"
from the album No Jacket Required (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #4 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13

Today's Song of the Day is by Genesis lead singer and drummer Phil Collins, whose third solo album No Jacket Required was proving to be his big moment in America, scoring two back-to-back #1 hits with the ballad "One More Night" and the "1999"-redux of "Sussudio". For the third release Phil went with a high-tempo "fluff" of a track in "Don't Lose My Number", which has some garbled made-up-on-the-spot lyrics about some sort of conspiracy which he's trying to warn a "Billy" about. The video is pretty funny though, showing Phil meandering though parodies of all the big music videos of the day, as well as Tina Turner's "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" and old westerns...

"Don't Lose My Number" became the third top-5 hit from the album in America in September of 1985. It also climbed into the Mainstream Rock (#33) and Adult Contemporary (#25) radio charts in Billboard. Internationally, while the song wasn't released as a single in Phil's native England, the track went top-10 in Australia...

Nowadays it's one of those high-charting singles from a prolific artist that make you go "oh yeah, I forgot about that one"...

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Here's Phil live on tour in 1995..

...and again a couple years later in Paris...

...and lastly, during his "farewell tour" from 2008...

Up tomorrow: a bunch of Hollywood Swingers go soft to hold something dear.