Songoftheday 10/17/14 - I say I love you I hold you near me, You say I scare you well that's your fear...

Mr. Mister - "Is It Love"
from the album Welcome To The Real World (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #8 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11

Today's Song of the Day comes from the pop/rock band Mr. Mister, whose sophomore album Welcome To The Real World had scored them a pair of #1 pop hits in America with "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie". The third single from the record was a run-of-the-mill mid-decade lite-rock fare of "Is It Love". Written by the band with lyricist John Lang, the single coasted on its synth chords, in a fluff of words, kind of like the Maroon 5 of their time..

"Is It Love" became the band's third and so-far final top-10 pop hit in the U.S. in May of 1986, while scaling to #17 on the Mainstream Rock radio chart in Billboard magazine. Internationally, while the song was a top-20 hit in Canada, it stalled right under the top-40 in Germany and only nicked the chart in England at #87.

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Here's the band live on MTV on their Spring Break show (yes, they were the hot thing back then)...

..and later the same year on tour in Asia...

...and finally from their 1988 show in Chile...

Up tomorrow: A Bluebelle and a Doobie split up.