Songoftheday 4/29/15 - Ohh I've had sleepless nights, toss and turn wake up burning for what you inspire...

"Walking Down Your Street" - Bangles
from the album Different Light (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #11 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 9

Today's Song of the Day comes from the all-woman rock band Bangles, whose sophomore album Different Light had already spun off three hit singles with the Prince-written "Manic Monday", the jangle-pop of "If She Knew What She Wants", and their #1 climax "Walk Like An Egyptian". For the fourth single from the record the quartet released "Walking Down Your Street", a retro-rock beat exercise that heralded back to their beginning. Written by lead singer Susanna Hoffs with producer David Kahne and Louis Gutierrez from fellow L.A. band the Three O'Clock, the track highlighted their harmonies in a way like British bands in the early 80s, and the video had the comedic touch like clips from Madness (and Randy Quaid, speaking of madness)...

"Walking Down Your Street" became their fourth top-40 pop hit in America, stopping right under the top ten for three weeks in April of 1987. The record also climbed to #33 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart. Internationally, the single made it to #16 in the UK, and #32 in Germany.

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....and here's the band rockin' it out live in 1987...

Up tomorrow: Scottish popsters nab some sweetness.