Oscar-Nominated Top Ten: Let’s Hear It for the Boy (#9)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (62666)
United States
January 23, 2023 10:50am CST
Today’s song might cause a little bit of controversy. Not because it’s not included in the list of my favorites that were nominated for an Oscar in the “Best Original Song” category. No, it’ll be controversial because I ranked it ahead of “Over the Rainbow.”
Put on your dancing shoes!
#9: Let’s Hear It for the Boy - Deniece Williams
I’ll go even more controversial here: this song lost to “I Just Called to Say I Love You” by Stevie Wonder (from The Woman in Red), and that’s a crime. That may be Stevie’s lamest song ever. (The video was worse, with the “Wonder bread” slice flying through it throughout the song.
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That was a good year for songs, with this and the theme song from Footloose, Phil Collins’ “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now),” and the theme to Ghostbusters. And they lost to the worst song on the list.
Obviously this one gets my vote. Deniece Williams may not be well-known in pop music (this and the duet she did with Johnny Mathis, “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late,,” are her big hits), but she’s very well-established in gospel music, having won four Grammy Awards for her gospel music.
And this song just makes you want to cut footloose!!
Let’s Hear It for the Boy
Written by Tom Snow and Dean Pitchford
Recorded by Deniece Williams
From Footloose, 1984
Maybe he’s no Romeo:
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@FourWalls (62666)
• United States
2 Feb 23
It’s a fun song to dance to (or roller skate to).
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@thebos (5783)
• Kisumu, Kenya
2 Feb 23
@FourWalls my sister too danced , it is very interesting I hope to find more as such
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@LindaOHio (158221)
• United States
24 Jan 23
Know it. Not a top fave but it will do. I like just about everything Stevie Wonder does.
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@FourWalls (62666)
• United States
24 Jan 23
Well, let’s hear it for much2say!
That was a golden era for soundtrack albums in the 80s!
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@RasmaSandra (74043)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Jan 23
Yes, great song most of the ones form Footloose and the title song make me want to start moving,
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@FourWalls (62666)
• United States
24 Jan 23
You and the cats get a conga line going and dance!!! ![](/Content/images/emotes/lol.gif)
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@FourWalls (62666)
• United States
24 Jan 23
My dancing shoes don’t fit because I have two left feet.
. But it is a great song to “do something that kind of impersonates dancing” to!
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@FourWalls (62666)
• United States
24 Jan 23
Yep, that movie was 39 years ago. If you’re like me you can’t remember 39 minutes ago. ![](/Content/images/emotes/rofl.gif)
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@FourWalls (62666)
• United States
23 Jan 23
She’s still active but in gospel music.
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@FourWalls (62666)
• United States
29 Jan 23
That’s a good one as well. I’m surprised it didn’t get a nomination.
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@FourWalls (62666)
• United States
23 Jan 23
There’s another dancing song in the top ten…and it’s completely different from this one!
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@FourWalls (62666)
• United States
23 Jan 23
I think I’ve seen it all but not in one sitting.
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@FourWalls (62666)
• United States
23 Jan 23
It was a big hit here in America, but so was the theme song (“Footloose” by Kenny Loggins), and that probably overshadowed this one.
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