Hot 80's Nights!: 'Self Control' by Laura Branigan (1984)

Hot 80's Nights! returns again, and this time the feature track goes to the international hit Self Control by late American singer/songwriter Laura Branigan. Laura Branigan was active in music from 1973-2004, she was born in Brewster, New York, and she died in 2004 due to a undiagnosed brain aneurysm at the early age of 47. Self Control was an international hit in 1984, coming off of Branigan's Self Control album, and the song would peak at the #1 spot in Canada, South Africa, and most of Europe that Summer. It would manage to peak at #4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and #2 on the  U.S. Billboard Hot Dance/Disco chart. The music video for this song is a little bit different, and appears to be of the dream-sequence genre.