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"I Know You're Out There Somewhere" - The Moody Blues
from the album Sur La Mer (1988)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #30 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 4

Today's song of the day comes from the veteran British progressive rock band Moody Blues, who had found themselves back in the American pop top ten for the first time since 1967 with "Your Wildest Dreams" in the summer of 1986. With the record company pushing to repeat this success, which watered down their sound a bit, concentrating on just the keyboard of Patrick Moraz and the singing of John Lodge and Justin Hayward, their next album, Sur La Mer, was more of a easy-listening foray than the last. Produced by Tony Visconti, the first single, "I Know You're Out There Somewhere", continued down the ELO-lite path as well as the video, which reprised the plot of "Your Wildest Dreams"...

"I Know You're Out There Somewhere" became the Moody Blues' thirteenth and so far final top-40 pop hit in the U.S. in August of 1988. The song also climbed to #2 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart, and peaked at #9 on their Adult Contemporary (or "easy-listening") chart. Internationally, the single made it to #15 in Canada, and #37 in Australia, but in their native England it stopped at #52.

The band would release a second single from Sur La Mer, "No More Lies", which went to #15 on the Adult Contemporary chart. Moraz would leave the band rather acrimoniously, leaving them to hire a couple journeymen to fill in on keys for their next album, Keys To The Kingdom. A track from the set, "Say It With Love", made it to #22 on the Mainstream Rock chart, their most recent appearance on a singles chart. They've released a couple more studio albums and a ton of compilations since, with the core of Lodge, Hayward, and drummer Graeme Edge continuing to tour.

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Here's the band performing the song live...

In 2013, Justin Hayward released a remixed and re-recorded version of the song names "Out There Somewhere"...

...and finally, the Moody Blues at their Red Rocks Show from 1993...

Up tomorrow: A dance diva slows down for her forever romance.