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This was the love theme to the movie Footloose starring Kevin Bacon as a guy who tries to liberate a town where dancing is banned.
Reno was lead singer of Loverboy; Wilson is a member of Heart.
Dean Pitchford wrote the lyrics and Eric Carmen wrote the music. Pitchford wrote the screenplay for the movie and wrote the lyrics to "Fame" by Irene Cara. Carmen is a prolific songwriter who wrote hits for his group The Raspberries as well as solo efforts like "All By Myself."
Carmen: "That was really the first time that I had collaborated seriously with anybody. The music side of things has always been very easy for me. I had to work really hard on the lyric side. John Kalodner asked me if I'd be interested in writing the love theme from Footloose. I flew out to LA I met Dean Pitchford for breakfast at 7, we went over to Paramount at 9, we watched the film. There was another song plugged into the hole where "Almost Paradise" was supposed to be. I think it was "Waiting For A Girl Like You" by foreigner.
We saw the film, and at noon we were back at Dean's house, and I said, 'Give me one line.' He said, 'Almost paradise, we're knocking at heaven's door.' We spent 12 hours on the song. It was done by midnight. We had to write the bridge the next day and play the song for the people at Paramount. I was amazed — here was a guy who could write lyrics as quickly and as easily as I could write music.
We went and sang it for the producers and directors, and we were terrified. There was a wall in Dean's office, and it had 'Love Theme From Footloose by Dean Pitchford and whoever' and a slash mark through it, and there was another one underneath, and another one underneath that. I looked at that wall the first day, and I said, "I will not be another slash mark off "Love Theme From Footloose" that didn't make it in the movie, with my name sitting there, for the next guy to come in and say, 'Oh, Eric Carmen didn't do it either.'" (thanks to Bernie and the folks at EricCarmen.com)
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A well 'memorized' song for me in'84. Grad year, first love, etc.... aahh memories
- Roger, Scanterbury, Canada