Songoftheday 7/5/15 - I know you think I'm not your picture perfect jewel, and let us break apart when everything was cool...

"Cross My Broken Heart" - The Jets
from the albums Beverly Hills Cop II (Original Soundtrack) and Magic (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11

Today's SOTD comes from the Samoan-American sibling act from Minnesota, the Jets, whose debut album had rewarded them with a pair of #3 pop hits with "Crush On You" and "You Got It All", the latter in the spring of 1987. That same summer, before the Wolfgramms recorded their sophomore album Magic, they contributed a song to the second movie in the Beverly Hills Cop franchise starring Eddie Murphy. "Cross My Broken Heart", co-written and co-produced by Madonna's early go-to guy Stephen Bray (who also had his own top-10 pop success as a member of the Breakfast Club with "Right On Track"), sounded out of the Material Girl wheelhouse, which was just fine with dance/pop stations hooked on the accelerated beats of freestyle. Lead singer Elizabeth was still just 14 years old when this single hit, the third from the soundtrack after Bob Seger's #1 "Shakedown" and George Michael's #2 "I Want Your Sex"...

"Cross My Broken Heart" became the Jets' third top-10 pop hit in August of 1987. The song also crossed over to Billboard's R&B chart at #11, and the 12" single version went to #8 on their Dance Club Play list. Internationally, the single made the top-40 in Canada and New Zealand. Brother Eugene would leave the group shortly after to form Wham!-like Boys Club and reach the top-10 the next year with "I Remember Holding You"...

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Here's the extended version remixed by Shep Pettibone that made the top-10 on the dance chart...

And here's the Jets live on an anniversary tour along with minor hit "Sending All My Love"...

Up tomorrow: blue-eyed long-haired soulster has a punchy question.