Songoftheday 12/27/14 - You take my breath away and love thinks it's here to stay...

"Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" - Glass Tiger
from the album Thin Red Line (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #2 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 14

Today's Song of the Day is by the Canadian rock band Glass Tiger, who came together as "Tokyo" in the early 80s, they changed their name and released their debut album in 1986. Produced by Jim Vallance, who was Bryan Adams' writing collaborator for years, helped them land the rock star as a backing vocalist for their first single, "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)". A synth-heavy midtempo record with a brass section, the song came at the right time between Adams' own projects for that type of sound to be new and familiar at the same time, and despite it lyrically being a breakup song from the perspective of the dumped, the punchy production hides that pretty well...

"Don't Forget Me" became the band's first top-10 pop hit in America in October of 1986. The record also climbed both the Mainstream Rock (#17) and Adult Contemporary (#30) radio charts in Billboard magazine. Internationally, besides topping the chart in their home country for a couple of weeks, the single was a top-40 hit in England, Australia, and Germany. Also, the song won "Single of the Year" at the Juno Awards (Canada's Grammys)...

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A separate video was filmed for the single's original release in Canada, featuring a gang of kids playing pied pipers...

...and here they are live in Toronto in 1986...

Up tomorrow: Swiss jazz-pop duo charter a romantic cruise.