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"Ship Of Fools (Save Me From Tomorrow)" - World Party
from the album Private Revolution (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #27 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 5

Today's SOTD is by the British modern rock band World Party, an act formed by Kurt Wallinger from the Celtic rock band the Waterboys. That group scored a top-40 hit in the UK with "Whole Of The Moon" in 1985, but not long after Kurt left to form the Party. Their first album, Private Revolution, was released in 1986, and the first single from the project, "Ship Of Fools", became his first worldwide hit...

"Ship Of Fools" climbed into the American pop 40 in April of 1987, while peaking all the way at #5 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart. Surprisingly, in their native Britain, the single missed the top-40 at #44, but did make the top-5 in Australia.

World Party's second album, Goodbye Jumbo from 1990, was a critical success, garnering them a Grammy nomination for alternative rock recording, and landed a top-40 UK hit with "Put The Message In The Box". The second single, "Way Down Now", topped the American Modern Rock chart. Three years later, the act got their biggest British hit with "Is It Like Today", which also peaked at #5 on the Modern Rock list in the U.S. Their most recent appearance was in 1997 with the UK top-40 hit "Beautiful Dream".

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...and here's Kurt and the band on tour in 1987...

Up tomorrow: A Hawaiian teen is steadfast in his romance.