You Should Hear How She Talks About You

Album

Do The Pop-Eye

Label

Arista Records

Genre

Contemporary R&B

Composer(s)

Dean Pitchford;Tom Snow

Entered Chart

May 22, 1982

Peak Date

Sep 18, 1982

Released

May 1982

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Arista 0676

B-Side

Long Goodbyes

Dean Pitchford and Tom Snow wrote this song as a modern take on "She Loves You" by The Beatles - the idea of hearing about someone's affections from another person. Snow and Pitchford were always swapping song ideas, and this song gelled when Snow came up with the vamp. Pitchford told Songfacts: "If you listen to the bass line and the motif of that song. He played it for me and when he got to the chorus and the (singing) 'dun dun da da da da da da' I had this idea: this might be the song where we write our modern day 'She Loves You.' I said, this could be the 'You should hear.' But the first thing that I gave him was 'You should hear the way she talks about you,' and it was a little awkward, it tripped over itself. He took it and he jagged it up, with the (staccato), 'You. Should. Hear. How. She. Talks. About. You.' With all those catch-rhythms. That was another case where we planted that title on the first line. Then I took away the rest of the melody and wrote the rest from there." Pitchford and Snow teamed up again to write the #1 hit "Let's Hear It For The Boy" for Pitchford's movie Footloose. This was first recorded in 1981 by Charlie Dore, a British female singer who had a US #10 hit in 1980 with "Pilot Of The Airwaves." Her version didn't catch on, but when Manchester recorded it a year later, it became a big hit and won a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Melissa Manchester was a top female vocalist of the late '70s and early '80s. She was mostly known for ballads like "Midnight Blue" (#6, 1975) and "Don't Cry Out Loud" (#10, 1979), but had her biggest hit with this uptempo song, which was the last of her seven Top 10 hits in the US, and also her biggest. >

You Should Hear How She Talks About You
Melissa Manchester
Tom Snow/Dean Pitchford

She's so very nice you should break the ice
Let her know that she's on your mind
Whatcha tryin' to hide when you know inside
She's the best thing you'll ever find?
Ahh, can't you see it?
Don't you think she's feeling the same?
Ahh, I guarantee it,
She's the one that's calling your name

CHORUS:
You should hear how she talks about you,
You should hear what she says
She says she would be lost without you,
She's half out of her head (out of her head)
You should hear how she talks about you,
She just can't get enough.
She says she would be lost without you,
She is really in love.

(spoken) She's in love with you boy

I ain't tellin' tales, anybody else
Could repeat the things that I've heard
She's been talkin' sweet and it's on the street
How our girlfriend's spreadin' the word

Ahh, you should hurry,
You should let her know how you feel
Ahh, now don't you worry
If you're scared this love is for real

You should hear how she talks about you,
You should hear what she says
She says she would be lost without you,
She's half out of her head (out of her head)
You should hear how she talks about you,
She is really in love
(She is really in love)

Ahh, you should hurry
You should let her know how you feel
Ahh, now don't you worry
If you're scared this love is for real

CHORUS

Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk

Can'tcha see? (Can'tcha see?)
It's me!

CHORUS