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"Goldmine" - The Pointer Sisters
from the album Hot Together (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #33 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 3

Today's Song of the Day comes from the Pointer Sisters, whose followup to their huge album Break Out in 1985 surprisingly only spun off one top-40 pop hit, "Dare Me", that frustratingly peaked at #11. Undaunted, the siblings teamed up again with producer Richard Perry for their twelfth studio album Hot Together. The first single from the project, "Goldmine", was written by pop writers Andy Goldmark and Bruce Roberts, and had the polished sheen of their previous hits. With lead vocals from sister June, the straightforward love song over a production that seems just missing a comedy film soundtrack to be on...

"Goldmine" became the Pointer Sisters' fifteenth and most recent top-40 pop hit in December of 1986. The single also crossed over to both the R&B (#17) and adult contemporary (#27) charts in Billboard magazine. The record did the best in the clubs, climbing to #7 on the dance chart with a remix from Shep Pettibone. Internationally, the song peaked a few notches away from the top-40 in Canada, and was a minor hit in both the UK and Australia.

The Sisters' next single, "All I Know Is The Way I Feel", nicked the pop chart at #93 the following year. Trying to repeat their success of "Neutron Dance", they recorded another song for the Beverly Hills Cop II movie, but the single "Be There" just missed the top-40 (it'll be an upcoming "robbed hit"). Their 1990 album Right Rhythm gave them their last top-40 R&B hit with "Friends' Advice (Don't Take It)" and final club hit with "Insanity". June left the Pointer Sisters in 2004 and passed away a couple years after that.

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and here's the Pettibone remix of the song that made the top-ten on the dance chart...

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