Monday, September 9, 2013

Musical Interlude: Waiting For a Star to Fall (1988)

Songwriters George Merrill & Shannon Rubicom, aka Boy Meets Girl, scored their only Top 40 hit in 1988 with "Waiting For a Star to Fall", a breezy pop ballad that could've fit any number of artists. Merrill had written "How Will I Know?", which was a huge hit a year or so earlier for Whitney Houston, but this would be his only chance to prove he could carry the mail himself. Sad to say, he & Shannon divorced 12 years after climbing the charts.

And, yeah, if you listen real close, Merrill's vocal style is similar to that of Michael Bolton, who was emerging around the same time.

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