Let’s Hear It for the Boy

~ Recording by Deniece Williams

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.2Let’s Hear It for the Boy4:20Deniece WilliamsFootloose: Original Soundtrack of the Paramount Motion PictureVarious ArtistsAlbum + Soundtrack
Columbia (owned by Sony Music Entertainment, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)JS 39242
3.4Let’s Hear It for the Boy4:17Deniece WilliamsEighties CompleteVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
EMI (EMI Records, or EMI Music only if there is no other imprint)8567612
1.13Let’s Hear It for the Boy4:19Deniece WilliamsThe 80s U.S. PlaylistVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2017-06-02
Crimson (UK budget comps; imprint of Crimson Productions Ltd.)CRIMCD598

Relationships

producer:George Duke
mixer:Tom Perry (engineer)
Tommy Vicari
Erik Zobler
analog synthesizer [Prophet V], electronic drum set [Linn Drums], Minimoog [Mini-Moog] and Moog [Memory Moog]:George Duke
guitar:Paul Jackson, Jr. (fusion/urban jazz composer, arranger, producer and guitarist)
percussion:Paulinho da Costa (Brazilian percussionist)
background vocals:George Merrill
Shannon Rubicam
Deniece Williams (US soul/funk vocalist/songwriter)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:Columbia Records (not for release label use! company owned by Sony Music Entertainment, only use for manufacturing/distribution and copyright holding)
CBS, Inc. (US broadcasting company; file no releases here!) (in 1984)
Sony Music Entertainment (NOT FOR RELEASE LABEL USE! company owned by Sony Corporation of America since Oct 1, 2008; operates worldwide except in JP) (in 1984)
Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (company owned by Sony Corporation of America from 1991–2004, operated worldwide except in JP; normally not a release label) (in 1984)
has remixes:Let’s Hear It for the Boy (extended)
recording of:Let’s Hear It for the Boy

Let’s Hear It for the Boy

lyricist:Dean Pitchford
composer:Thomas Snow (US keyboardist/songwriter)
publisher:Copyright Control (not for release label use! this is only for copyrights and publishing relationships)
Ensign Music Corporation
Famous Music Corporation (renamed since 2007‐05 as Sony/ATV Harmony/Melody)