Songoftheday 7/30/14 - In the empire of the senses you're the queen of all you survey...

Sting - "Love Is The Seventh Wave"
from the album Dream Of The Blue Turtles (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #17 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 9

Today's Song of the Day comes from the British singer/songwriter/bassist Sting, who after disbanding his band the Police released his debut album and already scored back-to-back top-ten pop hits in America with "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" and "Fortress Around Your Heart". For the third single from the project he put out the lite-reggae groove of "Love Is The Seventh Wave", which was much more positive a song than his usual fare...

"Love Is The Seventh Wave" became Sting's third top-40 solo hit in America in December of 1985. The record also reached the Mainstream Rock (#19) and Adult Contemporary (#20) radio charts in Billboard as well. Internationally, "Love..." was released as the second single, and actually missed the top-40 at #41 in Sting's native England, though it did climb to the top-10 in the Netherlands and went top-40 in France and Ireland.

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Here's Sting at the Montreaux Pop Festival in 1985...

...and live from this year with Paul Simon...

Up tomorrow: A white witch wants some communication.