Perfect Way

Album: Cupid & Psyche '85 (1985)
Charted: 48 11
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: DAVID GAMSON, GREEN GARTSIDE
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 5

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1985 {December 29th} Scritti Politti performed "Perfect Way" on the ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'...
    Two weeks earlier "Perfect Way" peaked at #11 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Top 100 chart, and it spent almost a half-year on the Top 100 {25 weeks}...
    It reached #6 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs chart...
    And on the same 'Bandstand' show the British band also performed "Wood Beez", it peaked at #91 on the Top 100 in 1984...
    Besides the above two records, they had one other Top 100 record, "Boom, There She Was"*, it reached #53 in 1988...
    * "Boom There She Was" was a duet featuring Roger Troutman...
  • Robert from Zanesville, OhOne of the better songs of '85; also heard Green supply vocals on Wrap It Up, from Eurythmics debut
    album in 1983.
  • Kristin from Bessemer, AlTakes me back to my JUNIOR year in College - in 1985
  • Eddie from Acton, MeTakes me back to my sophomore year in '85
  • Dave from Cardiff, WalesScritti Politti had four big hits in the UK between 1984 and 1988 - this was not one of them. "Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)" UK No. 10, "Absolute" UK No. 17, - both 1984 - "The Word Girl" UK No. 6 - in 1985 - and "Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy)", an unlikely collaboration with the legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, UK No. 13 - in 1988. Released as a follow-up to "The Word Girl" in 1985, it did not chart in the UK, but was a surprise hit in the US
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