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Night Ranger - "Four In The Morning (I Can't Take Any More)"
from the album 7 Wishes (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #19
Weeks in the Top-40: 6

Today's Song of the Day comes from the big-haired rock band from the Bay area, Night Ranger, whose third album 7 Wishes had produced a top-10 hit with "Sentimental Street" in the summer of 1985. For the set's second single the group released "Four In The Morning", written by bass guitarist Jack Blades at that god-awful early hour about an addictive love, while the over-the-top video carries on the "plotline" from the previous single...

"Four In The Morning" became Night Ranger's fifth top-40 pop hit in October of 1985, while climbing to #13 on Billboard magazine's Mainstream Rock radio chart. North of the border in Canada it also was a minor hit at #84...

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Night Ranger re-recorded the song for their acoustic album in 2012...

 ...and here's the band gettin' their oldies circuit on live in 2013...

Up tomorrow: The most recent #1 instrumental hit. Grab your shades and your unconstructed summer blazer.