Songoftheday 11/12/14 - They've been married for so many years now a young love serenade blows sweet nothings in her ear...

The Dream Academy - "The Love Parade"
from the album The Dream Academy (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #36 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 3

Today's Song of the Day is by the English psychedelic-pop trio the Dream Academy, who graced the American airwaves in 1985 with their top-10 breakthrough single "Life In A Northern Town". Their second single in the U.S. was the ethereal "Love Parade", written by group leader Nick Laird-Clowes and keyboardist Gilbert Gabriel. Beginning with the nod to the Phil Spector classic "Dedicated To The One I Love", the song drapes a beautiful sonic curtain over a lyric over a relationship gone stale and prone to cheating...

"The Love Parade" became the band's second and most recent top-40 pop hit in the U.S. in June of 1986, while also climbing to #13 on Billboard magazine's Adult Contemporary radio chart. In their native Britain though the single had a rougher go, stalling out at #68.

The Academy would go on to provide two songs to the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off; one, the album cut "The Edge Of Forever", made the top-40 on the rock radio chart in America, while another, a remake of the Smiths' "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want", was a minor hit in England at #83. Their second album, Remembrance Days, was an awesome and crazily overlooked album, and failed to have a hit on either side of the Atlantic. After a third stiffed album, they called it quits in 1991.

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As with their previous single, the version heard in England was different; a little less punchy and more delicate...

Up tomorrow: A breakup song by a Detroit rocker fuels truck commericals for years.