Songoftheday 12/29/17 - Knock down the doors and break through the walls tear out the phone run from it all, I'm here to tell ya babe it's been one of those days...
from the album Bone Against Steel (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #33 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 4
Today's song of the day comes from the southern rock group .38 Special, whose first album after losing one of their original lead singers Don Barnes, Rock & Roll Strategy, nonetheless gave them their highest-charting pop single with the soft-rock ballad "Second Chance" in the spring of 1989. ( A fourth single from the record, "Coming Down Again" hit #67 pop and #43 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart.)
In 1991, the band, still with new lead singer and keyboard player Max Carl, released their ninth studio album Bone Against Steel. The first single from the record, "The Sound Of Your Voice", brought them somewhat back to uptempo workingman rock, though much more slick and commercial sounding. Written by Carl with bandmates Danny Chauncey and Jeff Carlisi along with Jim Peterik of the rock band Survivor, it gave them their final mainstream radio hurrah...
"The Sound Of Your Voice" became .38 Special's ninth and so-far last top-40 pop hit in September of 1991. The track did much better on rock radio, peaking at #2 for a week on Billboard's Mainstream Rock format chart. Up in Canada, the single stopped right under the top-40 at #43.
A second single from Bone Against Steel, "Rebel To Rebel", missed the pop chart but did land at #30 on the Mainstream Rock radio tally. After this album, Carl left, with Barnes rejoining the band for their 1997 effort Resolution. From that set "Fade To Blue" became their most recent rock radio hit at #33. Since then they've released a Christmas album, and their most recent studio set, Drivetrain, was released in 2004. Original member Donnie Van Zant (who sang on "Rebel To Rebel") had to retire from touring then the band itself for health reasons.
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Here's the band (with Barnes) in 2013 performing the song live...
Up tomorrow: New Jersey dance trio possesses some romance.
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