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Donny Osmond - "Soldier Of Love" (1989)

Over three decades ago, "Soldier Of Love" dominated the Top 40 airwaves, putting Donny Osmond back at the top reaches of the American charts -- and at the forefront of pop culture -- for the first time since the halcyon days of the '70s, where the bedemined whiteness of The Osmonds sat queerly next to the Quaalude smiles and quasi-incestuous vibe of Donny & Marie. And like many pop oddities, it only happened due to a confluence of personal fandom and music biz machinations, for The Masked Singer of 2019 would only break through in 1989 as the man with no name. A Top 30 hit in the U.K. in 1988, "Soldier Of Love" was not initially released in the U.S., as Osmond did not have a record deal in America at the time. However, a cassette of the song from a British import was sent by an Osmond fan to Jessica Ettinger, the acting Program Director and Music Director at ABC’s WPLJ-FM New York. Ettinger liked the song but was concerned that Osmond, a former child star