Songoftheday 10/25/14 - If you would just be sensible you'd find me indispensable...

Honeymoon Suite - "Feel It Again"
from the album The Big Prize (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #34 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 3

Today's Song of the Day is brought to us by the Canadian hard rock band Honeymoon Suite, who hail from the Ontario side of Niagara Falls. They came together under lead singer and guitarist Johnnie Dee in the early 80s. After winning a radio band contest, the group released their self-titled debut album in 1984, redoing the song that won the contest, "New Girl Now". That new single reached the top-40 in Canada, and moved them to the American pop chart, peaking at #57 as well as scaling to #7 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart. For their sophomore effort, the band brought in fellow Canuck rockers Loverboy's producer, Bruce Fairbairn, and the big-sounding single from the set, "Feel It Again", gave them major exposure on MTV...

"Feel It Again" became Honeymoon Suite's second top-10 rock hit in America, peaking at #8, while crossing over to be their first and so-far only US top-40 pop hit. It was also a big hit in Canada, peaking at #16.

The band would follow it up with a great power-ballad, "What Does It Take", but that single stalled at #52. After recording the theme for the Mel Gibson franchise starter Lethal Weapon, which surprisingly had no response in the States, the band switch producers to Ted Templeman (Van Halen's go-to) for their third record Racing After Midnight. While the lead-off single "Love Changes Everything" became their biggest Canadian hit at #9, it only scraped the chart in America, becoming their final pop (#91) and rock (22). The still continued to have current success in their homeland for a few more years, placing "Say You Don't Know Me" in their top-40 in 1991. The act continues to play the old rockers circuit with just Johnnie Dee and new members, though they did reunite briefly in the mid-naughties...

Up tomorrow: a transformed rock band has no use for the next day.