Hot Line to Heaven
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| Single by Bananarama from the album Bananarama |
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| B-side | State I'm In | ||||
| Released | November 1984 | ||||
| Format | 7" single, 12" single | ||||
| Recorded | November 1983 | ||||
| Genre | Pop, New Wave | ||||
| Label | London Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Sara Dallin Siobhan Fahey Keren Woodward Jolley & Swain |
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| Producer | Jolley & Swain | ||||
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"Hot Line to Heaven" is a song written and performed by English girl group Bananarama. The song appears on their second, self-titled album and was released as a single in the UK in 1984.
In its album version, "Hot Line to Heaven" is a seven-plus-minutes mid-tempo pop song. It was edited to about three-and-a-half minutes for its single release. After Bananarama recorded the soundtrack song "The Wild Life" (from the film of the same name), the edited version of "Hot Line to Heaven" was pressed onto the Bananarama album in order to make room for the late-addition of "The Wild Life". This was only a temporary pressing, however, as Bananarama's track listing was restored several months later, with the full version of "Hot Line to Heaven" intact.
The single did not perform well on the charts and was not released anywhere but in the UK. As was the case with the Bananarama album, the dark lyrical content did not meet with mainstream acceptance and became the group's lowest charting UK single since their debut "Aie a Mwana".
The music video features the girls trying to persuade a record executive to be interested in their demo tapes. When they eventually show up as angels in his hallucinations, he relents.
[edit] Charts
| Chart (1984) | Peak position |
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| UK Singles Chart | 58 |
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