Undercover Angel (song)

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"Undercover Angel"
Single by Alan O'Day
Released	1977
Format	45
Writer(s)	Alan O'Day
Chart positions
Billboard Hot 100 #1

Undercover Angel was a #1 single for singer/songwriter Alan O'Day in 1977. O'Day described the tune as a "nocturnal novelette." It was put out, without fanfare, in February 1977. Four months later, it was the number one song in the country, and certified gold. "It's wonderful when you find out what feels right," said O'Day, "and then it also feels right to other people. That's a songwriter's dream." "Undercover Angel" zoomed to the top of the charts in July 1977, selling about two million copies.

The song begins with a man commiserating his lonliness, when a woman suddenly appears in his bed, and encourages him to make love to her. The rest of the song describes his feelings about her, then he discovers she must leave him, and he is saddened. She tells him to "go find the right one, love her and then, when you look into her eyes you'll see me again."

He then explains that was his story, as apparently he has been singing this song to a woman who he is trying to seduce, and how he wants to look in her eyes to see if she is the reincarnation of the angel he found.

Preceded by "Gonna Fly Now (Theme From "Rocky")" by Bill Conti

Billboard Hot 100 number one single July 9, 1977

Succeeded by "Da Doo Ron Ron" by Shaun Cassidy