Songoftheday 9/8/14 - Ask any girl in this lonely world, ask any girl she'll say make it last forever...

Loverboy - "This Could Be The Night"
from the album Lovin' Every Minute Of It (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #10 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10

Today's Song of the Day is from the Canadian hard rock group Loverboy, who scored their first American top-10 pop hit with the title track to their fourth album Lovin' Every Minute Of It. Surprisingly, their follow-up single, "Dangerous", tanked, failing even to make the top-40, despite being a better listen (IMHO). Trying to regain ground, the boys in red went all power-ballad on their third release from the album, "This Could Be The Night". Co-written by lead singer Mike Reno and band guitarist Paul Dean along with Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain and song doctor Bill Wray (who had recently wrote Diana Ross' top-40 "So Close"), the song put them back on the radio courtesy of the female fan base fervor....

"This Could Be The Night" became Loverboy's second and so-far last top-10 pop hit in America in March of 1986. The song also returned the band to the top-10 on the Mainstream Rock radio chart, landing at #9, and scored them their first and only hit on the adult contemporary chart in Billboard at #30.

With it's by-the-numbers power-ballad sound at least a lot more palatable than some of the other records of the sort, I'm certain a lot of 80s babies were conceived to this song.

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And get ready to see the band live this year in Canada....

Up tomorrow: Aussie alternative rockers supply some essentials.