Welcome to another regularly scheduled Reminiscings of Youth outing for this Thursday and today we are more than happy to bring Melissa Manchester. I used to know her primarily for her ballad "Don't Cry Out Loud" from 1978 but then in the early 1980s, she started making waves for this upbeat synthpop song that I used to hear not only on the radio but also on those K-Tel LP compilations on the ol' telly.
From what I've read about "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" from May 1982, she was very reluctant about the song before and after recording. However, she was still professional about it through her performances on stage and it looks like in the years and decades afterwards, she's gotten to like her hit which reached No. 5 in Canada and No. 5 in the United States as well, becoming her most successful song on the charts. I wasn't quite too sure about it initially also when I heard the chorus briefly on the commercials but hearing the whole thing on radio changed my mind in a good way. Love that 80s pop!
May 1982 is about as specific as Wikipedia has gotten about the release date so why don't we go with May 17th 1982 for what was up on the Oricon charts in Japan? I have No. 1, 2 and 8.
1. Toshihiko Tahara -- Harajuku Kiss（原宿キッス）
2. Seiko Matsuda -- Nagisa no Balcony （渚のバルコニー）
8. Junko Ohashi -- Silhouette Romance（シルエット・ロマンス）
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