Songoftheday 5/28/15 - I was thinking about her visiting the past, reconstructing details with old photographs...

"If She Would Have Been Faithful" - Chicago
from the album Chicago 18 (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #17 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 8

Today's SOTD comes from the veteran jazz-rock band turned soft-pop hitmakers Chicago, whose second David Foster-produced set Chicago 18 had scored them their first post-Peter Cetera hit with "Will You Still Love Me?". Their follow-up was yet another mid-tempo ballad, "If She Would Have Been Faithful". Written by Aussie Steve Kipner, who co-wrote Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" as well as Chicago's hit "Hard Habit To Break", along with Randy Goodrum, who penned fellow soft rock band Toto's "I'll Be Over You", the single was a "glass half full" of the remains of being cheating on, allowing the protagonist to find someone better. And the horn work in the background is quite sweet as well, and bandmates Jason Scheff and Bill Champlin trading vocals seamlessly...

"If She Would Have Been Faithful" became the second top-40 pop hit from the 18 album in May of 1987, while climbing up to #9 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart.

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...and here's the group performing the song live in Japan in 1987...

Up tomorrow: New Jersey rockers look on the Post Office wall.