Artist:Loverboy
Song:Heaven in Your Eyes
Album:Playlist: The Very Best of Loverboy
Long time readers of this blog will know that I occasionally like to feature what I call discography orphans. This is a song that is not part of an artist's main discography. Most commonly the song will be on a movie soundtrack. And that is the case with Heaven in Your Eyes from the soundtrack of the 1986 film Top Gun. The Canadian band Loverboy were very successful in the early 80s with albums like Loverboy (1980) and Get Lucky (1981) and singles like Working for the Weekend (1981) and Hot Girls in Love (1983). Their first four albums were certified 2XPlatinum. But by the time the 1987 album Wildside was released, things weren't going so well and Loverboy split up in 1988. Heaven in Your Eyes appeared on the soundtrack of the 1986 film Top Gun. The single reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100. The soundtrack album sold over 9M copies. But it was in Loverboy's contract with Top Gun producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer that they weren't allowed to put the song on their next album. Both Toto and Judas Priest had issues with that. Heaven in Your Eyes was written by John Dexter and Mae Moore along with Loverboy's Paul Dean and Mike Reno. Reno and Tom Allom produced the track while producing the 1985 album Lovin' Every Minute of It. And keyboardist Doug Johnson refused to appear in the video as an anti war protest. Dean and Reno weren't getting along during the recording of Wildside. When it didn't do well, Loverboy split up. Heaven in Your Eyes appears on most Loverboy comps including this budget comp. So it is a discography orphan but easy to find. Here's the video for Heaven in Your Eyes by Loverboy.
Liked a couple of their songs. I first saw them on Mtv and saw their first album "Get Lucky" at the record store I used to go to. I still listen to some of their songs. Takes me back to the 80's.
ReplyDeleteInteresting Frank. I did not know the album Get Lucky was their second one. Nice to see they had big success with their first four albums selling that well. I know a lot of people liked their music at the time. Thanks Frank.
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