Let the Day Begin by The Call

Let the Day Begin, the Call's 1989 album on MCA, nearly never saw daylight: Elektra, the band's previous label, passed on putting it out. The Santa Cruz band, with Michael Been singing and playing guitar, Tom Ferrier on guitar, Jim Goodwin on keyboards and Scott Musick on drums, answered with a record full of big, rolling, open-hearted rock, Been's voice straining toward something like hope.

The title track went all the way to No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart and reached No. 42 in the UK, but it hit a snag Been later explained: MCA was changing pressing plants, hadn't printed enough copies, and for five crucial weeks the single simply wasn't in the shops. The album still reached No. 64 on the Billboard 200 and has sold more than 300,000 copies, the band toured it with the Peregrins, and years later the title song became a theme for Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign.

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