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"Two Hearts" - Phil Collins
from the album Buster (Original Soundtrack) (1988)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13

Today's song of the day is by Phil Collins, who had parlayed his pop star clout into a starring role in the totally British comedy film Buster in 1988. The movie, where Phil played one of the perpetrators in the Great Train Robbery of 1963, was a box office bomb, but the music did quite well, already scoring Phil a #1 hit with his cover of the Mindbenders' "A Groovy Kind Of Love" in the fall of 1988. His follow-up was an original, "Two Hearts", written by Collins with Motown genius Lamont Dozier, and it matches his arrangement of Dozier's "You Can't Hurry Love" he had a top-10 hit with in 1982...

"Two Hearts" became the second #1 pop hit single in the U.S. from Buster in January of 1989. The song also spent five weeks atop Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart. Internationally, the single went to #1 in Canada, and top-10 in Germany (#3), Ireland (#3), Switzerland (#4), the Netherlands (#6), and Phil's native Britain (#6). It earned him a Grammy and a Golden Globe for best movie song, but lost out on the Oscar to Carly Simon's "Let The River Run".

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A second video for the song featuring Phil as a wrestler was made for a TV special, with cameos from Gilbert Gottfried and Vanessa Williams...

Here's Phil appearing live on Letterman to promote the single...

...and again on tour in 1990...

Finally, from his Finally...the Farewell Tour in 2004...

Up tomorrow: Nashville newcomer is not in the negative.