Songoftheday 3/2/18 - I can't figure you out but a heart must be the one thing you were born without...
from the album Love Hurts (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #37 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 4
Today's song of the day is from Cher, whose 1991 album Love Hurts returned her to the top-40 with the peace anthem "Love and Understanding" in the summer of 1991. The second single from the record would be another catchy pop/rock hybrid, "Save Up All Your Tears". Written by Desmond Child (then song doctor for Bon Jovi among others and then publicly in the closet), the song allowed her to bring the emotional drama yet again as she kisses off another ex-lover...
"Save Up All Your Tears" became Cher's second top-40 pop hit from Love Hurts in January of 1992. The song also climbed to #16 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio format chart. Internationally, the track reached the top-40 in Austria (#18), Ireland (#30), Canada (#32), and the UK (#37). She had two more moderately successful hits in the UK from the set that didn't make it in the States: the title track "Love Hurts" (a cover of the Everly Brothers song) reached #43, followed by the midtempo rock excursion "Could've Been You" which did a bit better, peaking at #31. Lastly, the sweet ballad "When Lovers Become Strangers" was a respectable radio hit in America, climbing to #15 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary list, while reaching the top-40 in Canada at #37.
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Cher wasn't the first to release "Save Up All Your Tears" as a single. It was first put out by gruff-voiced Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler of "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" fame in 1988, but it didn't make any singles chart in the US or internationally...
A year later, New Yorker Robin Beck covered the song, and made top ten in Switzerland (#5) and Germany (#10), and slipped on to the British chart at #84...
Cher performed "Save Up All Your Tears" on the Letterman Show to promote the album...
Next up, an audio from her 1992 Love Hurts tour...
Lastly, we got Cher on her "Farewell" tour in 2003..
Up tomorrow: Persperous new jack swing loverboy wants seconds, possibly thirds.
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