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"You Don't Know" - Scarlett & Black
from the albums Hiding Out (Original Soundtrack) and Scarlett & Black (both 1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #20 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 8

Today's Song of the Day comes from British pop duo Scarlett & Black, aka singers Robin Hild and Sue West, who released their debut album in 1987. The first single also appeared on the soundtrack to the Jon Cryer movie Hiding Out. That album had already spun off two big hits with Pretty Poison's "Catch Me (I'm Falling)" as well as Boy George's first solo success in the States, "Live My Life". "You Don't Know", written by the long-locked Hild, sounded very much in the stable of another man/woman songwriting duo, Boy Meets Girl ("Waiting For A Star To Fall", "Oh Girl"), and the result was a pleasant slice of adult-pop that stole Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants To Rule The World"'s rhythm pattern to use for this ode to being in the 'friendzone'...

"You Don't Know" became Scarlett & Black's first and only American hit, reaching the top-20 on the pop chart in April of 1986. The song did even better on the Adult Contemporary radio chart, climbing to #13, while the extended mix of the track made it to #32 on Billboard's Dance Club Play list. The single didn't even make the chart in their native UK, and failing to have any further success, called it quits shortly thereafter. But this nugget of unashamed twee-pop still sounds fine on the speakers, as long as nobody else is there to catch you.

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A second version of the video was shot to possibly tone down the Robin's hair, drawn into a pony-tail part of the time and cropping Sue's to a short blonde number a la Annie Lennox...

Up tomorrow: The big-voiced girl from Long Island needs some romantic evidence.