| "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" | ||||
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| Single by Melissa Manchester | ||||
| from the album Hey Ricky | ||||
| A-side | "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" | |||
| B-side | "Long Goodbyes" | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Genre | synthpop | |||
| Length | 4:17 | |||
| Label | Arista | |||
| Writer(s) | Dean Pitchford, Tom Snow | |||
| Producer | Arif Mardin | |||
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"You Should Hear How She Talks About You" is a 1982 Top Ten single performed by Melissa Manchester from her album Hey Ricky.
First recorded by Charlie Dore for her 1981 Listen! album, "You Should Hear..." was written by Dean Pitchford and Thomas R. Snow. Arif Mardin who produced Manchester's recording described the track as "a real departure for Melissa because it has a new wave dance quality and she had been known for her ballads", Manchester having reached the Top Ten of the Billboard Hot 100 with the ballads "Midnight Blue" (#6) and "Don't Cry Out Loud" (#10) and the previous Manchester/Mardin collaboration "Theme from Ice Castles" also being a ballad. Mardin continued: "But music is music. You can't turn your back on new formats or styles."[1] A 1985 interview with Manchester would state that the singer "had to be dragged kicking and screaming into [the] studio to record...'You Should Hear How She Talks About You'."[2]
"You Should Hear..." reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1982 to become Manchester's highest charting record. It would also prove to be Manchester's last Top 40 hit (her 1983 single "Nice Girls" would peak at #42). The track would earn Manchester the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the year 1982, besting nominated performances by Laura Branigan, Juice Newton, Olivia Newton-John, and Linda Ronstadt; Manchester had previously been nominated in that category for the 1979 release "Don't Cry Out Loud".
A #10 A/C hit, "You Should Hear..." also gave Manchester a hit in Canada (#5), New Zealand (#20), and Australia (#4). In Australia, it ranked as the #25 single of 1982.