Melissa Manchester - You Should Hear How She Talks About You

Melissa sings her top 5 hit live. This song won her a Grammy for Best Female Vocalist Performance

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Music

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• Melissa
• Manchester
• Tom
• Snow
• Dean
• Pitchford

[2tmFerrari]

How come she became so trampy looking so unlike her beginnings?

[spongeworthyvideo]

That was Clive Davis that pushed her to go commercial and do pop. She wasn't thrilled about it but this song was a huge hit and got her the Grammy. After Mathematics in 1985 she returned to the "earthy" Melissa we all know and love.

[Ecossaise]

Was there ever a video made of this song ? I know this is the early 80s but was there one made ?

[spongeworthyvideo]

No..it was just when videos were getting big but Arista didn't make one for Melissa and they should have. Luckily the song hit the top 5 without one. Luckily, Solid Gold showed Melissa's appearence often and it was well watched at the time. She sang it live on the American Music Awards and was a cohost that year so this song truly changed her career. Unfortunatly, Melissa doesn't look back fondly on her pop years and doesn't sing this in her concerts nowadays :-(

[kentgraovac]

I really miss this era. Just a female vocalist onstage alone belting it out. Melissa, Pat Benatar, Laura Branigan, etc. None of these poptarts today like Miley or Taylor Swift can hold a candle to them.

[wingcommander1974]

Note to Britney and crew...she's SINGING, not LIP SYNCING!!!

[kellie77381]

This 'video' shouldn't have gotten any thumbs up. There is not video and the audio sucks!

[climax522]

@aussiebluemax Hey Ocker! You're dead right there.  Audio is no better.

[aussiebluemax]

spongeworthy wtf is this shit just a big pink blur?

[goldwingdwarrior]

THIS IS TOTALLY LAME

[skuttytip]

Clearly not her genre, but worth the risk. I saw her perform this in New Orleans and she did not disappoint.

[myfeeling4you]

What comes to mind is all these fantastic singer/songwriters who have created all these great songs that have been nominated and won awards, a testamony just how good these songs are, looking at today and the quality of music it's no wonder there are no songs capable of being nominated, a sad reality that in years to come there'll be no memory of the music of today's era.

[primogennaio]

Fantastic song. Most of today's music is pure junk.

[primogennaio]

Fantastic song. Mosat od today's music is pure junk.

[amadeus317]

@kentgraovac - Yes, very brave to be on stage ALL BY HERSELF. Nobody does that anymore. That's a TON of performance pressure. Very few people can pull that off.