Songoftheday 12/22/14 - There's one born every minute and you're looking at him...

Mike + The Mechanics - "Taken In"
from the album Mike + The Mechanics (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #32 (four weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 5

Today's Song of the Day is by Mike + The Mechanics, a side project of prog-rock band Genesis' guitarist Mike Rutherford. With a more pop-leaning sound featuring singers Paul Young (not the "Everytime You Go Away" guy) and Paul Carrack (of Squeeze), they had already scored a pair of top ten pop hits in America with "Silent Running" and "All I Need Is A Miracle". The third single released from their debut album was the easy-listening-style ballad "Taken In", written by Rutherford with producer Christopher Neil. The video for the song continued the storyline from their "All I Need Is A Miracle" clip...

"Taken In" became the band's third top-40 pop hit in America in August of 1986, while ascending to #7 on the adult contemporary radio chart in Billboard magazine. But besides nicking the top-40 in Canada at #39, the single didn't succeed anywhere else in the world.

Up tomorrow:  a successful song doctor has a coronary with her own band.