Songoftheday 11/8/14 - I would walk ten miles on my hands and knees, ain't no doubt about it baby it's you I aim to please...

The Fabulous Thunderbirds - "Tuff Enuff"
from the album Tuff Enuff (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #10 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10

Today's Song of the Day is brought to you by the Texan blues-rockers Fabulous Thunderbirds, who came together in the late 70s under guitarist Jimmy Vaughan (older brother of the late guitar legend Stevie Ray) and singer and harmonica player Kim Wilson. They released a couple of indie records before putting out Butt Rockin' in 1981, and scored a couple of minor rock hits, including one, "One's Too Many (And A Hundred Ain't Enough)" that came so close at #41 on the rock radio list in Billboard. After another album failed to do any better, the T-Birds were in record label limbo for four years before Columbia picked them up, polished them off, and put out their biggest hit album Tuff Enuff. Written by Wilson and produced by British retro-rock king Dave Edmunds, the super-groovy title track became their biggest success....

"Tuff Enuff" reached the top-10 on the pop chart in America in July of 1986, becoming their sole top-40 hit on the Hot 100. The record also made it up to #4 on the Mainstream Rock radio list in Billboard. The band would go on to have a couple more minor hits, with a song from the multi-platinum soundtrack to Cocktail, "Powerful Stuff", go to #3 on the rock chart (their highest rank) and #65 pop, their last so far to chart. In 1991, they went to #7 with "Twist Of The Knife", from their Walk That Walk, Talk That Talk effort, but have been absent from the charts since, though they remain a concert draw, even though Vaughan left the band in 1990...

(if you can, seek out country belter Wynonna Judd's worthy cover of the song from the New Day Dawning album...

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Here's the band live at Farm Aid in 1986...

Up tomorrow: Ammosexual southern rockers have an extraordinary evening.