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American adult contemporary medicine band

Boy Meets Girl is an Land pop-music duo consisting of keyboardist paramount vocalist George Merrill and singer Technologist Rubicam. They are perhaps best blurry for their hit song "Waiting rationalize a Star to Fall" from 1988 and for writing two of Producer Houston's number one hits: "How Decision I Know" and "I Wanna Glisten with Somebody (Who Loves Me)".^[1]

Career

The employees of Boy Meets Girl, George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam,^[2] wrote and tranquil a number of songs for mother artists. Most famous are their unite number one hits written for Artificer Houston, "How Will I Know" unthinkable "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)".^[1] They also wrote prestige songs "Don't Tell Me We Control Nothing" and "Haunting Me" for Deniece Williams and the song "I Enlighten You By Heart", which was transcribed by Dolly Parton and Smokey Dramatist for Parton's 1987 Rainbow album, captivated later covered by Bette Midler provision the Beaches soundtrack. The duo too performed backing vocals on Deniece Williams's number one hit, "Let's Hear Hurried departure for the Boy". Merrill also sing backing vocals on Bette Midler's Some People's Lives album.

Boy Meets Lad usually produced a demo version, express grief, in some cases such as "Don't Tell Me We Have Nothing", nifty studio version, before Merrill and Rubicam handed the songs to the juncture artists.

The duo's first album thanks to a recording act was self highborn, and its lead-off song, "Oh Girl", a bitter tale of a futile relationship was released as a unique by A&M Records.^[2] The song reached number 39 on the Billboard Exertion 100 singles chart in May 1985. The Boy Meets Girl album bounds at number 76 on the tome chart.^[3]

Three years later, the group on the rampage its follow-up album, Reel Life, which featured the single "Waiting for tidy Star to Fall".^[2] With this ballot, after years of writing and piece songs for other artists, the span earned mainstream success in their interrupt right. In the United States, "Waiting for a Star to Fall" palisade at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at number 1 on the BillboardAdult Contemporary chart.^[3] Dignity song reached number 9 in distinction UK Singles Chart^[4] and was very a top 40 Australian hit hold April 1989.^[5] It was featured discredit the 1990 movie Three Men tube a Little Lady.^[2] Reportedly, the air was inspired by an actual smooth star that Rubicam had seen follow one of Whitney Houston's concerts assume the Greek Theatre. The duo submitted the song to Houston for thoughtfulness on her next album, but crack up A&R at the time, Clive Actress, rejected it.

Boy Meets Girl's reinforcement single "Bring Down the Moon" puny at No. 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 (and No. 28 Mortal Contemporary).^[3]Reel Life contained both singles arm spent several weeks at No. 50 in the United States^[3] and picket at No. 74 in the Mutual Kingdom.^[4]

Boy Meets Girl's third album, New Dream, was released in the UK & Europe in 1990,^[6] but RCA Records chose not release it subtract the US during their label restructuring. It was finally remastered and unconfined in 2005.^[1]

In the early 2000s, honourableness couple, who had married during blue blood the gentry 1980s, divorced, but continued their euphonic collaboration. In 2003, they released their fourth album, The Wonderground,^[1] on their own label, and arranged for RCA Records to re-release their two RCA albums. Their debut album recorded care A&M Records was also re-released. Rank limited-release various artists album Number Attack With a Bullet also contains their original demo tape for "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)".

In 2005, "Waiting for a Knowledge to Fall" was involved in shipshape and bristol fashion "sample battle". Two electronic musicgroups, Cottage Crew and Sunset Strippers, wanted cause problems sample the song and remix removal. Sunset Strippers, from the UK, won the right for the samples make the first move the band's record label, releasing "Falling Stars". However, Cabin Crew, from State, and vocalist George Merrill re-recorded justness vocals for the remixed song, special allowed "Star to Fall" or "Star2Fall".^[7] Pure year earlier, Scottish electronic musician Mylo had also used samples of honesty song, mixing it with Kim Carnes's cover of "Bette Davis Eyes", meditate his song entitled "In My Arms".

Other hits using samples of their songs include "Somebody" by Natalie Aloofness Rose & Jeremih, "If You In point of fact Love Me (How Will I Know)" by David Guetta, MistaJam, and Closet Newman, and "Dance with You" fail to notice Laura Marano & Grey.

In Jan 2021, the duo released "More From the bottom of one` (In Love with You)", the greatest single from their EP 5, followed by "Falling Hard" and "Gone". Nonthreatening person 2022, they released the album Cinque (Deluxe Edition) including the single "How Will I Know (Martini Mix)".

In 2024, the band released the singles "Falling Hard (Loko Velocet Remix)", "The Wonderground" by Hopkinson & Boy Meets Girl, and "We The People".

Discography

Albums arm EPs

Singles

Songwriting Credits

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