It was the group's second number-one hit on the U.S. charts (the first being 1981's "Keep on Loving You", also written by Kevin Cronin) and reached number sixteen in the UK.
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The song was heard on the South Park episode "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy", the Fringe episode "Power Hungry", as well as in the Showtime series Queer as Folk.
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It was referred to in The CW show Supernatural (in the second season episode #5, "Simon Said", Jo Harvelle turns this song on for Dean Winchester in Harvelle's Roadhouse, later he sings it in the car claiming the song had stuck in his head).
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A version of the song performed by Canadian actor and singer Cory Monteith was included on his audition tape for the Glee main cast; it helped to land him the biggest role of his career (Finn Hudson).
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It begins with Kevin Cronin playing the piano, attempting to find the key in which he can best sing the song (starting off in G major, he later decides he can sing it better in A).
It features "Can't Fight This Feeling," which was REO's second and longest-running #1 single.
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