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Two of Hearts – Stacey Q

Tuesday song of the day: Today’s song was the biggest hit for a Madonna-esque singer who is mostly forgotten today.



You don’t get much more 80s than Stacey Q. Her real name was Stacey Lynn Swain, but she used the stage name Stacey Q because she had been in a band called Q after the James Bond character. She kept the name after Q broke up.

As a solo performer, Stacey Q trafficked in disco-ish dance pop. Vocally she resembled early Madonna, and there was a definite Madonna influence in her fashion sense as well. She released her first solo album, Better Than Heaven, in 1986. The first single from the album was Two of Hearts, and it became a local hit in California before taking off nationally when she performed it as the guest character “Cinnamon” on the sitcom The Facts of Life.

Two of Hearts rose to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and sold over a million copies. Stacey Q was saved from officially being a one-hit wonder by the fact that the next single off the album, We Connect, placed at #35 on the Hot 100, making it her second Top 40 hit.

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psychicdeath

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Jan 21, 2015
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Dave's Song of the Day

Living in the Past – Jethro Tull

Wednesday song of the day: Today’s song didn’t become a hit in the United States until six years after its initial release.



Jethro Tull recorded Living in the Past around the same time as their 1969 album Stand Up, but it was released as a non-album single in the United Kingdom. It did well, reaching #3 on the UK singles chart. Living in the Past was not available in the United States until it was released as the title track of the Living in the Past compilation album in 1972.

After the album was released, the song was finally released as a single in the United States a few years after that. It did very well, reaching #11 on the Billboard Hot 100. Jethro Tull has had many classic songs, but they have always been an album rather than a singles act. Thus, while Living in the Past isn’t the first song you think of (that would probably be Aqualung), it is Jethro Tull’s highest charting single, edging out the #12 hit Bungle in the Jungle from 1974.



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