Songoftheday 4/13/16 - You are far when I could have been your star, you listened to people who scared you to death and from my heart...

"Kissing A Fool" - George Michael
from the album Faith (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #5 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10

Today's song of the day comes from British superstar George Michael, whose first solo album after disbanding Wham!, Faith, had scored four consecutive #1 pop hits in America with "Monkey", "One More Try", "Father Figure" and the title track (as well as the #2 single "I Want Your Sex" that predated them all). With 68 weeks in the top-40 between them, it was a testament to the album's staying power that a sixth single was pulled from the nine-track album (the CD and cassette sported two more). "Kissing a Fool", written and produced by George, was a smoky lounge-act swing tune that was classy and edgy at the same time (especially now, given his overt sexuality)...

While "Kissing A Fool" broke his streak of #1 singles, it still climbed to a very respectable #5 on the American pop chart in November of 1988. The song did go to the top of Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart, and it even crossed over to their R&B list (the fifth top-40 soul hit from Faith) at #33. Internationally, the record peaked at #1 in Canada, #9 in Ireland, #13 in the Netherlands, and #18 in his native Britain.

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...and for something new, here's crooner Michael Buble' with her performance of the song...

Up tomorrow: Second City rockers want you to avert your eyes.