Songoftheday 11/27/15 - A million young poets screamin' out their words, to a world full of people just livin' to be heard...

"Check It Out" - John Cougar Mellencamp
from the album The Lonesome Jubilee (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #14 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 9

Today's song of the day is by rock singer/songwriter John "Cougar" Mellencamp, whose 1987 album The Lonesome Jubilee had already spun off a pair of top-10 pop hits in America with "Paper In Fire" and "Cherry Bomb". The third release from the record was yet another reflective song about the state of life in the poverty-stricken heartland of his youth...

"Check It Out" climbed into the pop top-20 in April of 1988, while rising up to #3 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart. Internationally, the song went to #12 in Canada, #18 in New Zealand, and #22 in Australia.

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Here's Mellencamp performing the song on his MTV Unplugged episode in 1992...

John included "Check It Out" in many of his live appearances at Farm Aid. Here he is in 2008 with a somewhat Fleetwood Mac-ish take on the intro...

...and again in 2013...

...and finally from 2014...

Up tomorrow: a dance-pop goddess requires a certain paramour.