SONG OF THE DAY
“On The Dark Side” by John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band (Eddie & The Cruisers soundtrack, 1983).
INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia)
– John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band is the name of an American rock band of the 1970s and 1980s, from Narragansett, Rhode Island.
– Originally known as simply Beaver Brown, the group started out as a New England bar band and initially established a popular following throughout Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. They also had a following at The Fast Lane and Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
– They achieved their greatest fame when they performed the music of a “Springsteen-esque” fictional band in the 1983 movie Eddie and the Cruisers.
– The soundtrack album from the film reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart and produced a #7 hit single (“On the Dark Side”) on the Billboard Hot 100.
– “On the Dark Side” also held #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for five weeks.
– Initially, Cafferty was hired to write a few songs for the film, but he did such a good job of capturing the feeling of the 1960s and 1980s that Davidson asked him to score the film.
– After successful screenings on HBO in 1984, the album suddenly climbed the charts, selling four million copies.
– The studio re-released the soundtrack in the fall of 1984.
– Nine months after the film was released in theaters, the main song in the film, “On the Dark Side” was the #1 song in the country.