Songoftheday 8/2/18 - I hear her voice in my mind I know her face by heart, heaven and earth are moving in my soul...
from the album The Heights (Music From The Television Show) (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 16
Today's song of the day was taken from a musical TV show that featured a made-up band that wasn't the Monkees. "The Heights" a fictional act put together by former Scepter Records exec Steve Tyrell, who worked with Dionne Warwick, was commissioned to produce the music by what would be on the show as scappy musicians, but in reality was a bunch of Danny Bonaduce-style actors behind the one true singer (the "Keith"), Jamie Walters. It was heavily promoted on TV and radio, with the soft power-ballad "How Do You Talk To An Angel" became a bonafide radio hit. Written and produced by Steve Tyrell along with Barry Coffing, it became the biggest TV hit by a fictional act since the Pre-Fab Four...
"How Do You Talk To An Angel" climbed all the way to #1 on the American pop chart in November of 1992. The song also climbed to #8 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart. Internationally, the single made it as high as #2 in Canada and #3 in Australia, and was a top-40 hit in Belgium (#12). But horrendous ratings for the show, despite the song's success, caused the act to never be heard from again, with no follow-ups released and the show cancelled just as this single was losing steam. Walters would go on to collaborate with Tyrell under his own name as a solo artist, and scored a top-40 pop hit in 1994 with "Hold On".
Up tomorrow: The Salacious Material Girl?
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