Songoftheday 11/25/14 - Oh baby, I don't know why but somehow I always seem to get tangled up in my pride...

Rod Stewart - "Love Touch (Theme From Legal Eagles)" 
from the album Rod Stewart (Every Beat Of My Heart) (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #6 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 12

Today's Song of the Day comes from Scottish singer/songwriter Rod "The Mod" Stewart, who we last saw with his 1984 album Camouflage, which reunited him with guitarist Jeff Beck and landed him a pair of American top-10 pop hits with "Infatuation" and "Some Guys Have All The Luck". Two years later, Rod released his self-titled fourteen album (called Every Beat Of My Heart outside of the States). Mostly produced by Bob Ezrin (KISS, Alice Cooper), the first single was a song from the Robert Redford/Debra Winger movie Legal Eagles. "Love Touch", produced by co-writer Mike Chapman, who penned it with song doctor Holly Knight and Gene Black, was a lite-reggae piece of fluff perfectly suited for toss-off "chick movie" fodder...

"Love Touch" became Rod's ninth American top-10 pop hit in August of 1986. The single went a notch higher on Billboard magazine's adult contemporary (or 'easy listening') chart at #5, and climbed to #26 on the Mainstream Rock radio chart as well. Internationally, the single was a top-ten hit in Ireland, and top-20 in Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and New Zealand. It stalled at #27 in England, though his next single "Every Beat Of My Heart" rocketed to #2 there.

Up tomorrow: a gone-gone girl go-goes insane.