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“Stranger in Town” is a hit song from American rock band Toto from their 1984 album Isolation. It was the first single released from that album, reaching the Top 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1984. It was also a Top 40 single in Australia, where it remains the fourth highest charting single by Toto behind only “Hold the Line”, “Rosanna”, and “Africa”. The song was written by David Paich and Jeff Porcaro, and features Paich on lead vocals. The music video (starring actor Brad Dourif) and lyrics to the song are based on the film Whistle Down The Wind, about an escaped convict who runs into a group of children that mistake him for Jesus. The video features Toto front-man Fergie Frederiksen as a murder victim. The video was also nominated at the 1985 MTV Music... Read on...