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"Somebody's Out There" - Triumph
from the album The Sport Of Kings (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #27 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 5

Today's Song of the Day is by the Canadian hard rock band Triumph, who came together in the suburbs of Toronto in the mid-70s, with singer and guitarist Rik Emmett joining keyboard player/bassist Mike Levine and drummer/second vocalist Gil Moore. They released their debut album in the fall of 1976, but it wasn't until three years later with their third album that they first tasted success in America. Their first big hit, "Hold On", reached the top-40 that year in the U.S. The trio would end up selling over a million copies of their fifth release Allied Forces in 1982, with "Magic Power" reaching the top-10 on the newly-minted Mainstream Rock radio chart in Billboard the year before. In 1983, their single "All The Way" nearly topped the rock chart at #2, as the second of their five top ten rock hits in the U.S.

The band released their eighth studio album, The Sport of Kings, in 1986, and the first single from the set, "Somebody's Out There", returned the band to pop radio in America...

"Somebody's Out There" became Triumph's second and so far latest top-40 pop hit in the U.S. in November of 1986, while climbing to #9 on the Mainstream Rock radio list in Billboard. They would continue to have a few more rock hits, even after Emmett's departure in 1988, ending with "Child Of The City" (#30) in 1993, with the group disbanding shortly after.

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Here's the band performing the song live in concert...

Up tomorrow: A Virginia band talks about racism; a #1 hit results.