Single:
Hello entered the Australian singles chart* on 30 April 1984 and peaked at #1. The song was #9 on the Top 100 of 1984.
Album:
The song is on Can’t Slow Down which entered the Australian albums chart* on 5 December 1983 and peaked at #1.
Songwriter:
Lionel Richie
Producers:
Lionel Richie, James Anthony Carmichael
Record label of Australian release:
Motown
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Songfacts:
This was the second #1 song from Richie’s second solo album after leaving the Commodores. Can’t Slow Down won the 1984 Grammy for Album of the Year, and is the biggest-selling album in the history of Motown Records.
When he was young, Richie watched beautiful women walk past but was too shy to talk to them. He thought to himself, “Hello, is it me you’re looking for.” Years later he started to write a song using the phrase but got stuck and gave up, but his record producer liked the line and urged him to finish it.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/lionel-richie/hello
Wikipedia – the music video:
The music video for Hello, directed by Bob Giraldi, features the story of Richie as a theatre and acting teacher having a seemingly unrequited love for a blind student (Laura Carrington). He discovers the feeling is mutual after he finds that she is sculpting a likeness of his head in clay.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_(Lionel_Richie_song)#Music_video
Lyrics:
I’ve been alone with you inside my mind
And in my dreams I’ve kissed your lips a thousand times
I sometimes see you pass outside my door
Hello, is it me you’re looking for?
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