Melissa Manchester "You Should Hear How She Talks About You"

[Hervard]

prenatt1166 said:

YSHHSTAY was a change of pace for Melissa Manchester.  She was long associated with MOR ballads like "Midnight Blue" and ''Don't Cry Out Loud". 

Don't forget "Fire In The Morning"!

[Hervard]

Wow, that chart was from the same week as the April 1980 AT40 Flashback. There are two songs that were below the starting point on that show, but even they were mentioned, as Casey was talking about "hot" songs to tie in with Kool & The Gang's "Too Hot".

[mst3k]

I love this song.

[stevie nice]

prenatt1166 said:

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[red]For Week Ending April 12, 1980[/red]

08  12  Charlie Dore -  Pilot Of The Airwaves
:)

Whoa!!! Is this on a Cd comp?

[reception]

It's alright.

[blfdguy1]

Made me dig for this one..lol. Great fun song...haven't heard it in quite a while.

September 8, 1982

01 01 Gloria - Laura Branigan
02 02 Rosanna - Toto
03 06 Who Can It Be Now - Men At Work
04 05 You Should Hear How He Talks About You - Melissa Manchester
05 08 Kids In America - Kim Wilde
06 07 Only The Lonely - The Motels
07 03 Love Is In Control - Donna Summer
08 04 Hold Me - Fleetwood Mac
09 09 Don't Throw It All Away - Stacy Lattisaw
10 10 Only Time Will Tell - Asia

YSHHSTAY spent 2 weeks at #4 and was #23 for 1982.

[blfdguy1]

stevie said:

Whoa!!! Is this on a Cd comp?

I have it on a Rhino Comp: Radio Daze: Pop Hits of the 80's - Volume 2

1. With You I'm Born Again - Billy Preston & Syretta
2. Pilot of The Airwaves - Charlie Dore
3. Him - Rupert Holmes
4. Three Times In Love - Tommy James
5. I Still Have Dreams - Richie Furay
6. Do Right - Paul Davis
7. Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia
8. Stomp! - Brothers Johnson
9. We Were Meant To Be Lovers - Photoglo
10. I Pleade My Love - Peaches & Herb
11. Lost Her In The Sun - John Stewart
12. Wondering Where The Lions Are - Bruce Cockburn.

OMG....So much cheese, so little time!!

[mst3k]

blfdguy1 said:

I have it on a Rhino Comp: Radio Daze: Pop Hits of the 80's - Volume 2

I've got that CD too... along with Volumes 3, 4, and 5. I never got Volume 1, and unfortunately that series is out of print now. :(

[Jeff]

I love that song!

I recently heard it one night on WQJQ.

[cartman2002]

That tune was Mellisa's biggest hit slowly climbing to #5 in Sep 1982 but it also her last top 40 hit.

[areyoureadytojump]

Solid Gold!

[lolhey]

Good song, her Mathematics album from '85 is criminally underrated though.

[esoteric76]

This was a big one, a lot of fun to sing along with.

[glenpwood]

It's a shame she never performs this song live anymore. I saw her live a few years back and did a great cross section of hits and album cuts I never imagined I'd get to hear live (Caravan, Boys In the Back Room) where I got to ask her in a round about way why she doesnt sing it since its technically her biggest hit. (I didnt want to piss her off or seem like some crazy dissatisfied fan who didnt get everything he wanted) She said she considers this and some of the other pop oriented singles of that time of her career (Nice Girls, Pretty Girls, No One Can Love You More Than Me) fine for their time but not indicative of her overall body of work as a performer and certainly not where shes at creatively now so she's dropped them.

[gonecountry]

underrated.  This really was a fun song and she did a great job on this.

[disman00911]

Didn't know this song existed until I started listening to various 70s/80s AT40 with Casey Kasem shows on Mixcloud.  I like it.

[areyoureadytojump]

Debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 40 years ago this week at #76.