Boy Meets Girl (band)

Career

George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam wrote and composed songs for other artists before achieving their own success. Their most famous compositions are the two number-one hits they wrote for Whitney Houston: "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)". They also wrote "Don't Tell Me We Have Nothing" and "Haunting Me" for Deniece Williams, and "I Know You By Heart", recorded by Dolly Parton and Smokey Robinson for Parton's 1987 album Rainbow and later covered by Bette Midler for the Beaches soundtrack.

The duo performed backing vocals on Williams' number-one hit "Let's Hear It for the Boy", and Merrill sang backing vocals on Bette Midler's album Some People's Lives. Boy Meets Girl typically produced a demo or studio version of a song before handing it to the intended artist. Their debut album as a recording act was self-titled, and its lead single "Oh Girl" reached number 39 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1985; the album peaked at number 76.

Three years later, they released Reel Life, which included the single "Waiting for a Star to Fall". The song peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart, reached number 9 in the UK, and was a top 40 Australian hit in April 1989. It was featured in the 1990 film Three Men and a Little Lady. The song was inspired by a falling star Rubicam saw at a Whitney Houston concert at the Greek Theatre; the duo submitted it to Houston, but Clive Davis rejected it.

The follow-up single "Bring Down the Moon" reached number 49 on the Hot 100 and number 28 on the Adult Contemporary chart. Reel Life spent several weeks at number 50 in the US and peaked at number 74 in the UK. Their third album, New Dream, was released in the UK and Europe in 1990 but RCA Records did not release it in the US during a label reorganization; it was remastered and released in 2005.