Songoftheday 6/6/16 - Is it that we've been together much too long? The answer may not be in black and white...

"Surrender To Me" - Ann Wilson and Robin Zander
from the album Tequila Sunrise (Original Soundtrack) (1989)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #6 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10

Today's song of the day paired up two iconic rock singers from the 70s that were in a sort of "comeback" mode in the mid to late 80s. Ann Wilson, who fronted the band Heart along with her sister Nancy, had scored a #1 pop hit in the summer of 1987 with "Alone", while Robin Zander's Cheap Trick did the same a year later with "The Flame". Both were farmed-out compositions that went against the grain of the harder-edged music both were famous for, but ended up becoming their biggest chart hits. Which is probably why the singers, on a between-album break, were put together for the schmaltzy love theme from the Mel Gibson/Michelle Pfeiffer drama Tequila Sunrise. It would be the second time doing this for Wilson, who scored a top-10 single in 1984 with "Almost Paradise" with Loverboy's Mike Reno. Like that song was written by soft-rock star Eric Carmen, "Surrender To Me" was penned by Richard Marx and Ross Vannelli (brother and writer for Gino Vannelli), and basically explored the same "do it while we can" theme...

"Surrender To Me" made it into the top 10 on the American pop chart in March of 1989. The single also popped on to both Billboard's Mainstream Rock (#42) and Adult Contemporary (#44) radio charts.

Up tomorrow: British westerners find an Arab.