![]() The song became a Houston’s fourth #1 hit in the United States-it went #1 in 14 countries.As electronic dance music has evolved, more and more artists have aspired to bend the boundaries of genres, and tap into into untouched territories of production. Merrill and Rubicam didn’t get to hear the finished song until the album was done, when Clive Davis invited them to an album listening party, where he told them it would be the album’s first single and predicted it would go #1. So, we just jumped in the water and lo and behold a magic record was born, Houston just knocked it out and then I knew we had a good record. I slept, dreaming about it, woke up in the morning thinking about it, wondering what am I gonna do with this dance song. I felt the song needed a much more funkier feel. I love Olivia Newton-John, but for Whitney Houston it didn’t seem right. Walden said, “It reminded me of a rodeo song with Olivia Newton-John singing.” We sent our demo version off to Clive Davis and he loved it.īut not everyone loved their version-producer Narada Michael Walden didn’t think it fit for Whitney. It wasn’t, ‘I wanna go down the disco and dance.’ It was, ‘I wanna do that dance of life with somebody.’ That was the thought behind the song. I pictured somebody single wishing that they could find that special person for themselves. We sent it off to her and they passed on it. We both saw it, so I pulled out my little notepad and wrote ‘Waiting for a Star to Fall’ and then later wrote a song around it. ![]() ![]() She had just finished singing ‘How Will I Know’ and we just happened to look up while people were clapping and a star was falling. In The Billboard Book of Number One Hits, Rubicam recalled being inspired to write a song after she and Merrill watched Whitney perform at an outdoor venue. ![]() Merrill and Rubicam first worked with Whitney on her 1985#1 hit “How Will I Know.” Thanks to the success of “How Will I Know,” legendary music executive Clive Davis asked them to write another song for Whitney. The story behind the song belongs to its songwriters-George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam of the band Boy Meets Girl. Whitney Houston’s 1987 single “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)” was her biggest hit until “I Will Always Love You,” five years later. Somebody who, somebody who Somebody who loves me, yeah Somebody who, somebody who To hold me in his arms, oh I need a man who'll take a chance On a love that burns hot enough to last So when the night falls My lonely heart calls Oh, I wanna dance with somebody I wanna feel the heat with somebody Yeah, I wanna dance with somebody With somebody who loves me Oh, I wanna dance with somebody I wanna feel the heat with somebody Yeah, I wanna dance with somebody With somebody who loves me Ooh, ooh (Dance) Come on, baby (Dance) Woo, yeah (Dance) Now get with this, woah (Dance) Don't you wanna dance (Dance) with me, baby? Don't you wanna dance (Dance) with me, boy? Hey, don't you wanna dance (Dance) with me, baby? With somebody who loves me Don't you wanna dance? Say you wanna dance Don't you wanna dance? (Dance) Don't you wanna dance? Say you wanna dance Don't you wanna dance? (Dance) Don't you wanna dance? Say you wanna dance Uh-huh (Dance) With somebody who loves me Ooh, ooh (Dance) Ooh, ooh (Dance) Ooh, ooh (Dance) Hey, baby Don't you wanna love, don't you wanna love me?
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