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"Thought I Died And Gone To Heaven" - Bryan Adams
from the album Waking Up The Neighbours (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #13 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13

Today's song of the day comes from Canadian rock star Bryan Adams, whose Waking Up The Neighbours album had already spun off three big pop hits with "There Will Never Be Another Tonight", "Can't Stop This Thing We Started", and the #1 smash "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You". The fourth single from the record would be the midtempo ballad "Thought I Died and Gone To Heaven". Written and produced by Adams with pre-Shania/post-Def Leppard "Mutt" Lange, the song ended up reversing his momentum back upwards towards the top of the chart. The music video, shot by Kevin Godley of 10cc and MTV clip fame, puts Adams and his band in a blue field with dolphins somehow in the mix...

"Thought I Died And Gone To Heaven" became the fourth top-40 pop hit from Waking Up The Neighbours in May of 1992. The song also climbed to #14 on Billboards Mainstream Rock radio chart, and slipped on to their Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") format list at #36. Internationally, the song was the third from the record to go to #1 in Canada, climbed to #8 in the UK, and reached the top-40 in Ireland (#11), Australia (#13), Belgium (#21), New Zealand (#23), and France (#27).

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And here's Bryan in concert in 2012 performing the song...

Up tomorrow: two kids turn things around (including their clothes) for a huge rap hit.