"You Should Hear How She Talks About You" | ||||
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Single by Melissa Manchester | ||||
from the album Hey Ricky | ||||
B-side | "Long Goodbyes" | |||
Released | May 1982 | |||
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Length | 4:17 | |||
Label | Arista | |||
Songwriter(s) | Dean Pitchford, Tom Snow | |||
Producer(s) | Arif Mardin | |||
Melissa Manchester singles chronology | ||||
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"You Should Hear How She Talks About You" on YouTube |
"You Should Hear How She Talks About You" is a song that was first recorded by Charlie Dore for her 1981 Listen! album. [1] "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" was written by Dean Pitchford and Tom Snow.
According to lyricist Pitchford, the song's lyrical concept was borrowed from " She Loves You" by the Beatles: "the idea of somebody reporting to somebody else on hearing this girl's in love with you, or this boy's in love with you." [2] Pitchford and Snow had had that idea in mind for some time; then when Snow first played for Pitchford a new tune which had come to him, Pitchford felt: "this [could] be the song where we write our modern day 'She Loves You.'" [2] Pitchford came up with the main hook line as "You should hear the way she talks about you" which Snow amended to "You should hear how she talks about you". [2]
In 1982, American singer Melissa Manchester recorded it and included it on her album Hey Ricky. [3]
Arif Mardin who produced Manchester's recording described the track as "a real departure for Melissa because it has a new wave dance quality and she had been known for her ballads", Manchester having reached the top 10 of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 with the ballads " Midnight Blue" and " Don't Cry Out Loud", as well as the Manchester-Mardin collaboration " Through the Eyes of Love". Mardin continued: "But music is music. You can't turn your back on new formats or styles." [4] A 1985 interview with Manchester would state that the singer "had to be dragged kicking and screaming into [the] studio to record...'You Should Hear How She Talks About You'." [5]
The track would earn Manchester the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the year 1982, besting nominated performances by superstars Linda Ronstadt and Olivia Newton-John as well as Juice Newton and Laura Branigan. Manchester had previously been nominated in that category for her 1979 Top 10 hit "Don't Cry Out Loud."
In a 2012 interview Manchester would say of "You Should Hear How She Talks About You": "What was wonderful was that the song was written by two colleagues of mine, Tom Snow and Dean Pitchford. It's a solid song; but it was not the norm for me because I’m basically a troubadour. But I cut my hair off, lost lots of weight, glammed up, and ran it up the flagpole - and it worked! It worked all the way to a Grammy, which was kind of surprising. It was a lot of fun. I stopped singing it for awhile, because I needed a little perspective on it. But now I sing it again, and it’s kinda fun." [6]
"You Should Hear How She Talks About You" reached number five on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in September 1982 to become Manchester's highest-charting record. On the Cash Box chart, it spent six weeks at number four. [7] The success enabled the song to rank at number 18 on the Hot 100's year-end chart for 1982. The song would also prove to be Manchester's last top-40 hit. The song also peaked at number 10 on the Adult Contemporary chart and number eight on the Dance/Disco Top 80 chart. [8] [9] "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" was also a worldwide hit in Canada (number five), New Zealand (number 20), and Australia (number four). In Australia, it ranked as the number-25 single of 1982.
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"You Should Hear How She Talks About You" | ||||
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Single by Melissa Manchester | ||||
from the album Hey Ricky | ||||
B-side | "Long Goodbyes" | |||
Released | May 1982 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 4:17 | |||
Label | Arista | |||
Songwriter(s) | Dean Pitchford, Tom Snow | |||
Producer(s) | Arif Mardin | |||
Melissa Manchester singles chronology | ||||
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Audio | ||||
"You Should Hear How She Talks About You" on YouTube |
"You Should Hear How She Talks About You" is a song that was first recorded by Charlie Dore for her 1981 Listen! album. [1] "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" was written by Dean Pitchford and Tom Snow.
According to lyricist Pitchford, the song's lyrical concept was borrowed from " She Loves You" by the Beatles: "the idea of somebody reporting to somebody else on hearing this girl's in love with you, or this boy's in love with you." [2] Pitchford and Snow had had that idea in mind for some time; then when Snow first played for Pitchford a new tune which had come to him, Pitchford felt: "this [could] be the song where we write our modern day 'She Loves You.'" [2] Pitchford came up with the main hook line as "You should hear the way she talks about you" which Snow amended to "You should hear how she talks about you". [2]
In 1982, American singer Melissa Manchester recorded it and included it on her album Hey Ricky. [3]
Arif Mardin who produced Manchester's recording described the track as "a real departure for Melissa because it has a new wave dance quality and she had been known for her ballads", Manchester having reached the top 10 of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 with the ballads " Midnight Blue" and " Don't Cry Out Loud", as well as the Manchester-Mardin collaboration " Through the Eyes of Love". Mardin continued: "But music is music. You can't turn your back on new formats or styles." [4] A 1985 interview with Manchester would state that the singer "had to be dragged kicking and screaming into [the] studio to record...'You Should Hear How She Talks About You'." [5]
The track would earn Manchester the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the year 1982, besting nominated performances by superstars Linda Ronstadt and Olivia Newton-John as well as Juice Newton and Laura Branigan. Manchester had previously been nominated in that category for her 1979 Top 10 hit "Don't Cry Out Loud."
In a 2012 interview Manchester would say of "You Should Hear How She Talks About You": "What was wonderful was that the song was written by two colleagues of mine, Tom Snow and Dean Pitchford. It's a solid song; but it was not the norm for me because I’m basically a troubadour. But I cut my hair off, lost lots of weight, glammed up, and ran it up the flagpole - and it worked! It worked all the way to a Grammy, which was kind of surprising. It was a lot of fun. I stopped singing it for awhile, because I needed a little perspective on it. But now I sing it again, and it’s kinda fun." [6]
"You Should Hear How She Talks About You" reached number five on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in September 1982 to become Manchester's highest-charting record. On the Cash Box chart, it spent six weeks at number four. [7] The success enabled the song to rank at number 18 on the Hot 100's year-end chart for 1982. The song would also prove to be Manchester's last top-40 hit. The song also peaked at number 10 on the Adult Contemporary chart and number eight on the Dance/Disco Top 80 chart. [8] [9] "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" was also a worldwide hit in Canada (number five), New Zealand (number 20), and Australia (number four). In Australia, it ranked as the number-25 single of 1982.
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Year-end charts
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