DEF: John Cougar Mellencamp “Lonely Ol’ Night”
John Cougar Mellencamp hit the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart with five songs from his 1985 album Scarecrow, with the first three of those songs reaching the Top 10. On this date that year, the album’s first single, “Lonely Ol’ Night,” climbed to a peak position of number 6. Today, “Lonely Ol’ Night” by John Cougar Mellencamp is the Daily Eighties Flashback.