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"Lost In Emotion" - Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
from the album Spanish Fly (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13

Today's SOTD comes from freestyle dance music trio Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, who scored their first #1 pop hit in the U.S, in the summer of 1987 with "Head To Toe". Their follow-up, "Lost In Emotion", had even more of a Motown throwback flavor than a club groove, and pop radio again ate it up, like the urban North's answer to Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine...

"Lost In Emotion" became the group's second #1 pop hit in October of 1987 (their so-far last appearance in the top-10). The single also topped Billboard's R&B chart, and crossed over to hit #27 on their adult contemporary (or "easy listening") radio list. The 12" remix climbed to #8 on the American Dance Club Play chart as well. Internationally, the record went to #7 in Canada, and #15 down in New Zealand, but rather stiffed in the UK, petering out at #58.

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...and here's the remix that made the dance top-10...