Say you, say me

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Say you, say me
  DE 10 December 2nd, 1985 (20 weeks)
  AT 6th 01/15/1986 (16 weeks)
  CH 1 December 15, 1985 (15 weeks)
  UK 8th November 16, 1985 (11 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 11/09/1985 (20 weeks)

Say You, Say Me is a 1985 song written by Lionel Richie . Richie wrote it for the film White Nights , which won the song for Best Song at the 1986 Academy Awards . After Separate Lives , Say You, Say Me was the second number one hit from the movie soundtrack .

history

Director Taylor Hackford asked Richie to write the theme song for White Nights, and after Richie watched the film, he agreed. A few weeks later, Richie's manager informed those responsible at Columbia Pictures that although he had written a song, it was not called White Nights . After hearing a demo of Say You, Say Me , Hackford approved the song.

The publication caused problems. The soundtrack album for the film was supposed to be released by Atlantic Records , but Richie was signed to Motown Records and was busy working on his next studio album, which would feature Say You, Say Me . The record labels agreed that although the song would not appear on the soundtrack album, it could advertise the film as a single . Gary LeMel, director of film scores at Columbia Pictures, later stated that the soundtrack album would have sold much better if Say You, Say Me had been on it.

publication

Say You, Say Me was released worldwide in October 1985 and became a number one hit in the United States , Canada , Switzerland , Norway and Sweden . For various reasons, the release of the next studio album was delayed until August 1986, so its original title was changed from Say You, Say Me to Dancing on the Ceiling , because this was also the name of the next single release.

At the 1986 Academy Awards , the song won the Best Song category , and it also won the Golden Globe Award / Best Film Song . In the episode The Incredible Journey in a Private Plane from The Simpsons , Richie parodied his own song in a guest appearance at Homer's request and sang: Hey You, Beer Me .

In 2012, Richie released a new version of his song together with Rasmus Seebach , which reached number 3 in Denmark.

Cover versions

Individual evidence

  1. Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
  2. a b c d e Fred Bronson: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits . Updated and Expanded 5th Edition. Billboard Books, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-8230-7677-2 , pp. 626 .