Songoftheday 8/22/15 - Why don't you dream anymore? What's in the way? How come you point to the door And ask me to stay?...

"You Are The Girl" - The Cars
from the album Door To Door (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #17 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 9

Today's SOTD is by the Boston new-wave group the Cars, who had been taking a break to pursue solo work after their Greatest Hits album that scored them a pair of pop hits with the top-ten  "Tonight She Comes" and a remake of their 1981 cut "I'm Not The One". In 1987, they re-emerged with their sixth album Door To Door, led by "You Are The Girl", written and sung by Ric Ocasek, while the campy sci-fi music video was directed by John Waters...

"You Are The Girl" became the Cars' 13th and so-far last top-40 pop hit in October of 1987. The song also went all the way to #2 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, and #12 on their adult contemporary radio list. The record was also a top-40 hit in Canada and New Zealand.

The band's next single, "Strap Me In", was a big rock radio hit (#4), but puttered out at #85 on the Hot 100. The third track from the project, "Coming Up You" (sung by Benjamin Orr), would be their final minor pop hit at #74. In 1988, the Cars officially split, and in 2000, Orr passed on from cancer. Members of the band joined Todd Rundgren for "The New Cars" (without Ocasek), but in 2011, the original four reunited for the Move Like This album, which produced the rock radio nugget "Sad Song" (#33 mainstream rock).

(Click below to see the rest of the post)


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

Up tomorrow: Canadian rocker is a romance statistic.