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Song of the Day #6,195: ‘Sussudio’ – Phil Collins

The week of June 22, 1985, found Bryan Adams topping the Hot 100 with ‘Heaven.’ It was Adams’ first #1 hit, one of four in his career. Interestingly, the other three were all movie themes: ‘(Everything I Do) I Do It For You’ from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, ‘All for Love’ from The Three Musketeers, and ‘Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?’ from Don Juan DeMarco.

Alas, I featured ‘Heaven’ ten years ago during a week of songs by Canadians tied to a family vacation, so you don’t get to hear that banger of a power ballad today.

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Song of the Day #6,194: ‘Love Will Keep Us Together’ – Captain & Tennille

Throwing back to the week of June 21, 1975, we find the husband and wife duo Captain & Tennille atop the Billboard Hot 100 with ‘Love Will Keep Us Together,’ their debut single.

The track is a faithful cover of a Neil Sedaka song released a couple of years earlier. Toni Tennille gives a nod to Sedaka in the final seconds, singing “Sedaka is back” over the fade-out.

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Song of the Day #6,193: ‘Surf City’ – Jan and Dean

The British pop duo Peter and Gordon show up next on the list of most forgotten artists, but they weren’t forgotten by this blog, having shown up in a post one year ago.

That brings us to another duo, this one from the good old U.S. of A. Jan and Dean were a surf rock act who were contemporaries and collaborators with The Beach Boys. William Jan Berry co-wrote a slew of songs with The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson (RIP), including today’s SOTD, which reached #1 on the Hot 100.

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Song of the Day #6,192: ‘One Bad Apple’ – The Osmonds

The next artist on the ‘most forgotten’ list is Gary Lewis & the Playboys, but I’ve featured them on the blog a couple of times recently so they won’t have the honor today.

Instead, we come to the only 70s band near the top of the list: The Osmonds. To be fair, I’m sure people remember Donny (and Marie) Osmond to a greater degree than their family band. But the singing group that had 10 Top 40 hits in the first half of the 70s… not so much.

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Song of the Day #6,191: ‘He Will Break Your Heart’ – Jerry Butler

Jerry Butler might be remembered as a singer with The Impressions, a vocal group inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. Butler and Curtis Mayfield shared lead vocals in the band’s early years before Butler left the group to embark on a solo career.

More likely, The Impressions are only slightly more remembered than Butler himself, who comes in third on the ranked list of most forgotten artists.

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