BOY MEETS GIRL

Homebase: Seattle, WA
Misc Notes: Boy Meets Girl is a pop-music duo consisting of Seattle keyboardist and vocalist George Merrill and singer (and Seattle native) Shannon Rubicam who first met in 1975 when both were performing at a wedding. The duo's first album was self-titled, and its lead-off single, "Oh Girl," a bitter tale of a failed relationship, was released by A&M Records. The song reached #39 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in May 1985. The Boy Meets Girl album peaked at #76 on the album charts. Three years later, the group released their follow-up album, Reel Life, which featured the single "Waiting for a Star to Fall." With this selection, after years of writing and composing songs for other artists, the duo earned mainstream success in their own right. In the United States, "Waiting For a Star to Fall" peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at #1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. The song reached #9 in the UK and was also a top ten Australian hit in April 1989. Boy Meets Girl's follow-up single "Bring Down the Moon" peaked at #49 on the Billboard Hot 100 (and #28 Adult Contemporary). The Reel Life album contained both singles and spent several weeks at #50 in the United States and peaked at #74 in the United Kingdom. Merrill and Rubicam may br best known for composing two number one hits for Whitney Houston, "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)." They also wrote the songs "Don't Tell Me We Have Nothing" and "Haunting Me" for Deniece Williams and the song "I Know You By Heart," which Bette Midler performed on the Beaches soundtrack. The duo also performed backing vocals on Deniece Williams's number one hit, "Let's Hear It For The Boy." Merrill also sang backing vocals on Bette Midler's Some People's Lives album. Boy Meets Girl's third album, New Dream, was scheduled for release in 1990, but RCA Records shelved it during a label reorganization. It was finally released through the band's own website in 2004. In the early-2000s, the couple, who had married during the 1980s, divorced, but continued their musical collaboration. In 2003, they released their fourth album, The Wonderground, on their own label, and arranged for RCA Records to re-release their two RCA albums. Their debut album recorded for A&M Records was also re-released. In the works are new versions of the demonstration tapes they originally recorded for Whitney Houston. The various artists album Number One With a Bullet also contains their original demo tape for "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)."
SEE ALSO:
1.) SPARROW

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