Songoftheday 2/27/16 - Something happens to the pledges of trust, down through the years they begin to rust...

"Perfect World" - Huey Lewis & The News
from the album Small World (1988)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #3 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 12

Today's song of the day comes from Huey Lewis & The News, whose 1986 album Fore! had spun off an incredible five top ten pop hits with "Doing It All For My Baby", "I Know What I Like", "Hip To Be Square", and two #1s in "Jacob's Ladder" and "Stuck With You".  Two years later, the band released their fifth studio album Small World. The first single, "Perfect World", was written by Alex Call, a former bandmate of Lewis' in his former act Clover. With a lightly inspirational lyrics and a reggae-tinged chorus, the song was one of their more complex hits...

"Perfect World" made it to the top three on the American pop chart in September of 1988. It would be their so-far last to reach the top-10. The single also peaked at #2 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary radio chart and #5 on their Mainstream Rock list. Internationally, the record topped the singles chart in Canada, and went to #22 in Australia, but just missed the top-40 in the UK (#48), France (#44), and New Zealand (#43).

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...and here's the band performing the song live in Japan...

Up tomorrow: prog-rock vets are still searching.