Heart and Soul (T'Pau song)

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"Heart and Soul"
T'pauheartandsoulsingle.jpg
Single by T'Pau
from the album Bridge of Spies
B-side "On the Wing"
Released9 February 1987 (UK) [1]
20 April 1987 (US)
Recorded1986
Genre New wave [2]
Length3:42 (7″ version)
4:15 (LP version)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Roy Thomas Baker
T'Pau singles chronology
"Heart and Soul"
(1987)		"Intimate Strangers"
(1987)
Music video
"Heart and Soul" on YouTube

"Heart and Soul" is the debut single by British pop rock band T'Pau, released in a rerecorded version from their debut studio album Bridge of Spies in 1987. Following its inclusion in a Pepe Jeans advert[ citation needed ], the single reached number four on both the US Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart.

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Background

Singer Carol Decker said of the authorship and composition of the selection:

Ron had just bought a new keyboard with a built in sequencer, so he was just trying to get used to the gizmos in it and while messing around with the sequencer he started the “bum bum buh buh bum bum bum” of the bass riff. I started to sing a melody over it, the wafty vocal and came up with “more than an ocean keeps us apart.” The lyrics were about when I went on holiday with my parents and Ronnie couldn’t come. I missed him so much, but then I morphed the story into a fictitious one of not being loved back (which I was). The rap was the idea of Andy Piercy, our then producer. He said the gaps needed filling, so I started these syncopated sort of nonsense noises. I then turned those noises into words which took about a week to get right. [3]

Song information

The song is notable for its usage of various vocal overdubs, causing Decker, essentially, to be duetting with herself on the original studio recording. This makes the song, in its initial studio form, impossible to perform live without additional backup singers. Instead, Decker often performs what she calls a "basic" version, [4] explaining to Songfacts: "I rap the first two verses then cut to the melody for the verse before the chorus. No one really notices or minds as I cover the essential dynamics of the song. It works well." [4]

Upon its initial release in the UK in February 1987, the song was not well received, entering the bottom of the chart and falling out immediately after. [5] But in the United States, the song received heavy airplay, and enabled it to reach No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1987. [6] Due to the exposure, the song was re-released in the UK that same month; this time it became a hit, equaling the US peak of No. 4 in September. [7]

There are two different versions of the Music Video, one made later than the other, both visible on YouTube.

Packaging and title

The single artwork was designed by graphic designer Adrian Fry. [8]

Charts

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