Songoftheday 1/23/18 - Sometimes we make it harder than it is take a perfect night and fill it up with words we don't mean...

"That's What Love Is For" - Amy Grant
from the album Heart In Motion (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 18

Today's song of the day comes from Christian music icon turned pop star Amy Grant, whose big foray into secular music with her Heart In Motion album. After two huge singles with the #1 "Baby Baby" and #2 "Every Heartbeat", her third single slowed things down with the ballad "That's What Love Is For". Written by Grant with producer Michael Omartian along with Mark Mueller (who penned Heart's "Nothin' At All"), the soft-pop nugget continued her love affair with mainstream radio...

"That's What Love Is For" became the third top ten pop hit for Amy in November of 1991. The song spent three weeks at #1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart, her third trip to the top after "Baby Baby" and her duet with Peter Cetera "The Next Time I Fall". Internationally, the record climbed to #7 in Canada, and was a minor hit in the UK (#60). Australia (#68), and Germany (#78).

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Here's Amy singing live on Oprah in 1992...

In 2015, the ballad got the full club remix treatment by Chris Cox of Thunderpuss...

and finally, a more recent appearance on The View, performing with a different arrangement..

Up tomorrow: Soft-pop king goes back to the 60s to define heterosexuality.