Lionel Richie "Hello" 1984

[areyoureadytojump]

One of the most memorable/sappiest videos of the 1980s:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDZcqBgCS74

Went to #1 on the Hot 100.

From the 10xp album Can't Slow Down.

[johnnywest]

Sad song but I like it. I think it missed #1 on the R&R chart.

[WotUNeed]

Yuck

[Ezekiel 23:20–21]

The song was okay. But the video is so wrong and disturbing.

[Deleted]

I don't care much for it. I've never been a big fan of solo Lionel. The only solo singles I listen to by him are "Endless Love," "All Night Long," "Running With The Night," "Do It To Me," and "I Call It Love" which isn't a lot considering his level of output.

[freakyflybry2]

One of my favourites from him! This song gives me chills sometimes, moreso than any other song he did.

[shocker]

Borrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring!

{YAWN}

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[blue in moonlight]

This has to be one of the creepiest videos ever. It's hilarious looking at it now.

[620 Soul Train]

This is not a bad song, as a matter of fact it is one of his best. Now why in the tarnation did it have to settle for #2 for three weeks on the R&R charts. It should have been that idiotic record "Dancing On The Ceiling" to have missed the top instead.

[unicorns]

Jul 8, 2008 5:56:33 GMT -5 shocker said:

Borrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring!

{YAWN}

{SNXXXXXXXXXXXX}.

LOL, I couldn't agree more.

[shocker]

I actually like many of Lionel Richie's songs. It's just that he's 1 of those singers that sounds better with up-beat music, rather than slow, sleepy ballads. The only exceptions are "Stuck on You" and "Say You Say Me". Those actually had some unique flavor to them - "Stuck" was country-tinged, and "Say" was a power-ballad. But "Hello" just lays there and takes a snooze.

[Dreams]

Lionel's signature song. A global smash, it reached #1 everywhere.

The video was odd:

The song was promoted with a much derided video which included dialogue. Lionel Richie plays a teacher, Mr. Reynolds, who falls in love with a blind pottery student, Laura. When he looks in at her class, he finds that she has made a perfect clay model of his head During the making of the video, Richie protested to the director Bob Giraldi that the story about the blind woman had no relationship to the song. Giraldi replied to him, "You're not creating the story, I am."

The video was voted the worst music video of all time in a poll of 8,000 music fans by UK TV music channel The Box, but Giraldi, who also directed Michael Jackson's "Beat It," stands by it. He's quoted in the book I Want My MTV as saying, "I came up with the idea of a blind girl and Lionel as a teacher. 'Hello' is one of the top videos ever." Giraldi adds that Richie was concerned that the bust didn't look like him, until Giraldi pointed out that the girl making it was supposed to be blind.

Adele's new single prompted me to listen to this one again. Cheesy, but I'd forgotten how much I like it.

[Soulsista]

While it is a classic, he's had much better, both solo and with The Commodores.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

It's a classic, but I tend to favor his other ballads more.

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[disman00911]

I hear this song recently used as an internet meme. It's okay but I'm more familiar with some of his other solo hits.

[leonagwen]

May 6, 2019 10:46:29 GMT -5 🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 said:

It's a classic, but I tend to favor his other ballads more.

Truly is his best song.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Music video:

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[areyoureadytojump]

40 years ago this week, "Hello" debuted at #75 on the February 25, 1984 Billboard Hot 100.

Live in 1987:



Jimmy Fallon joke:



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_(Lionel_Richie_song)

#1 UK
#1 Cash Box
#1 R&B
#2 R&R: web.archive.org/web/20230324131851/https://gghunt.utasites.cloud/charts/lrichie.html