Songoftheday 9/12/16 - When the fear sets in where the fire burns, where I find a place where there's nowhere to turn...

"No More Rhyme" - Debbie Gibson
from the album Electric Youth (1989)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #17 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 7

Today's song of the day comes from Debbie Gibson, the teenage singer/songwriter/producer that was the youngest woman to do that trifecta for a #1 hit with "Foolish Beat". Her second album, Electric Youth, had given Debbie her biggest career hit with the #1 "Lost In Your Eyes", but the album's bouncy title track spent three weeks right under the pop top ten. So for the third release they went back to the ballads with "No More Rhyme", written by the artist and produced by Fred Zarr. Danica McKellar from The Wonder Years makes a cameo "cello-synching for her life"...

"No More Rhyme" became Gibson's eighth top-40 pop hit in August of 1989. The song also climbed to #13 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary radio chart. Internationally, the record reached the top-40 in Canada (#25) and Belgium (#40).

A fourth single from the album, "We Could Be Together" (a virtual re-write of "Out Of The Blue"), missed the pop top-40 in America (#71), but did pretty well in the UK, making it to #22, higher than her US #1 hit "Lost In Your Eyes".

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...and here's Debbie performing the song live in concert...

Up tomorrow: Rapper that ladies love defines himself.