Songoftheday 7/14/16 - Well here we are again I guess it must be fate, we've tried it on our own but deep inside we've known we'd be back to set things straight...

"After All" - Cher & Peter Cetera
from the album Heart Of Stone [Cher] (1989)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #6 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11

Today's song of the day comes from Cher, who experienced her first "renaissance" with her self-titled 1987 album, which landed her a pair of hits with "We All Sleep Alone" and the top-10 "I Found Someone". Her next trick paired her up with former Chicago lead singer/bassist Peter Cetera, who had just scored him another top-5 pop hit with "One Good Woman". "After All", written by Dean Pitchford and Tom Snow (the Footloose guys also behind "Almost Paradise"), was taken from the Robert Downey Jr/Cybill Shepherd romcom Chances Are, and had the similar power-ballad adult flair the Ann Wilson/Mike Reno track did...

"After All" became Cher's ninth (apart from Sonny & Cher) and Peter's fourth (apart from Chicago) top-10 pop hit in May of 1989. The song also went to #1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary radio chart. Internationally, the song went to #5 in Canada, #24 in Ireland, and was a minor hit in the UK at #84. It would go on to be nominated for an Oscar for Original Song, losing to "Under The Sea" from The Little Mermaid.

(Click below to see the rest of the post)


Here's Cher live in concert with her tour pianist filling in for Peter...

...and Peter doing his own thing with the song in 2004...

Up tomorrow: Teen queen has a mean lean for the AM and the FM.