Robbed hit of the week 12/7/15 - Whitesnake's "Give Me All Your Love"...

"Give Me All Your Love" - Whitesnake 
from the album Whitesnake (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #48

This week's "robbed hit" comes from the "hair-metal" band Whitesnake, whose leader David Coverdale shuffled up the lineup, released a revamped self-titled album which included some new versions of past songs, and scored two huge pop hits in the U.S. with "Here I Go Again" (#1) and "Is This Love" (#2). The third single released from the set, "Give Me All Your Love", brought David closer to his roots, with a straight-forward hard-rock come-on stance that relied on the guitars more than the synths. Written by Coverdale with then-guitarist John Sykes, by the time the single was going to be released, Sykes had left the band, and continuing the successful trend of remixing their singles from the album versions, recorded a new take with new axe man Vivian Campbell, who appears in the video. However, most striking is who wasn't in the video, namely model Tawny Kitaen, whose presence in the other two clips was so iconic she practically was her own entity in the band itself...

While "Give Me All Your Love" reached #22 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, it stalled out at #48 on the pop Hot 100 list in March of 1988. In their native Britain (where the first two singles didn't quite match their American success), the song did much better, climbing to #18.

It could've been the lack of Kitaen that didn't get MTV viewers to pay attention. Maybe the ascension of Def Leppard's Hysteria album dampened the excitement about this older set. It still is a damn good record to play top-volume in the car driving at 10pm.

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...and here's Whitesnake performing the song live in 2005 in London...