Songoftheday 8/28/15 - Children behave that's what they say when we're together, and watch how you play...

"I Think We're Alone Now" - Tiffany
from the album Tiffany (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13

Today's SOTD comes from Tiffany Darwish, who started her national career as a contestant on Star Search as a teenager, where she placed runner-up but got enough exposure to nab a contract with MCA records in 1986. She recorded her self-titled debut album with producer/manager George Tobin, and embarked on a tour of shopping malls across America - perfect to win over the teenage girl audience that was dominating the music-buying audience of the mid-80s. But instead of shilling freestyle dance-pop, Tiffany and Tobin unearthed a 20-year-old #4 hit from Tommy James and the Shondells, "I Think We're Alone Now"....

Now to have a girl in her mid-teens sing about getting some solo time with a boy should've raised more than a few eyebrows, but the wall of sound around her disaffected vocals threw everyone off the track a little bit...

Tiffany's take did what the Shondells couldn't, bringing "I Think We're Alone Now" to #1 in November of 1987. The single also went to #38 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart, and #23 on their Dance Club Play list. Internationally, the single topped the chart in Britain, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand.

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Here she is on her 1988 world tour...

British female vocal group Girls Aloud took their cover of the song to #4 on the UK chart in 2006...

..and finally, Tiffany reprising her breakthrough hit in 2011...

Up tomorrow: a jazzy familial band comes through.