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Talking in Your Sleep (The Romantics

song)
"Talking in Your Sleep" is a chart-topping hit song by Detroit rock
"Talking in Your Sleep"
band The Romantics. It was a number three U.S. hit in early 1984 and
became a UK hit in August that year for British band Bucks Fizz. It
ultimately became a hit throughout the world, and was the group's most
successful song.

The song is in natural minor.[1]

Contents
Song history
Music video
Chart performance Single by The Romantics
Weekly charts from the album In Heat
Year-end charts
B-side "I'm Hip"
Bucks Fizz version
Track listing Released September 1983
Weekly charts Recorded 1983
Cui Jian version Genre Pop rock · new
Other covers wave
References Length 3:54
Label Nemperor

Song history Songwriter(s) Coz Canler · Jimmy

Marinos · Wally
The song appeared on the Romantics' 1983 album In Heat and was the Palmar · Mike Skill ·
Romantics' biggest chart hit, garnering substantial radio airplay and a Peter Solley
million in US 45 RPM single sales.
Producer(s) Peter Solley
The song reached number three – where it held for three weeks – on the The Romantics singles
Billboard Hot 100 in early 1984.[2] It also went to number one on the Hot chronology
Dance Club Play chart,[3] as well as hitting the top of Billboard 's Album
"No One "Talking in "Rock You
Rock Tracks chart.[4] Like You" Your Up"
(1981) Sleep" (1983)
In Australia, "Talking in Your Sleep" climbed to number 14 on the
(1983)
Australian Singles Chart (Kent Music Report)[5]
Audio sample

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It was featured in the first episode of the second season of the Netflix 0:00 MENU
series Stranger Things, playing on a car radio. The Romantics – "Talking in Your
Sleep"

Music video file · help

The song's music video, widely aired at the time on MTV and elsewhere, featured the band performing while
surrounded by standing, but seemingly sleeping women who were dressed in lingerie, pajamas, and other sleepwear.

Chart performance

Weekly charts Year-end charts

Peak Chart (1984) Position

Chart (1983)
position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[19] 19
US Dance/Disco Top 80 (Billboard)[3] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[20] 19
US Rock Top Tracks (Billboard)[4] 2
US Dance/Disco Top 80 (Billboard)[20] 16

Chart (1984)
Peak US Cash Box Top 100[21] 34
position

Australia (Kent Music Report)[5] 14

Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[6] 19

Belgium (VRT Top 30 Flanders)[7] 17

Canada Top Singles (RPM)[8] 1

Canada (CHUM)[9] 1

France (IFOP)[10] 30

Germany (Official German Charts)[11] 18

Netherlands (Single Top 100)[12] 24

Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[13] 20

New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[14] 20

South Africa (Springbok Radio)[15] 15

Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[16] 5

Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[17] 20

US Billboard Hot 100[2] 3

US Cash Box Top 100[18] 4

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Bucks Fizz version

The single was unsuccessful in the United Kingdom, but in August 1984,
"Talking in Your Sleep"
the song became well-known when pop group Bucks Fizz covered it. This
version reached number 15 on the UK Singles Chart.[22] It was produced
by Andy Hill and featured on their fourth album, I Hear Talk.[23][24] The
single was the group's first for nine months and became their biggest hit
since "When We Were Young", a year previously. It was also released as a
limited-edition EP, which included the live tracks "Twentieth Century
Hero" and a cover of Chris de Burgh's "Don't Pay the Ferryman". The B-
side, "Don't Think You're Fooling Me" was written and produced by band
member Bobby G.

Track listing
Single by Bucks Fizz
7" vinyl
from the album I Hear Talk
1. "Talking in Your Sleep" (Canler / Skill / Palmar / Solley / Marinos) –
(4.18) B-side "Don't Think You're
2. "Don't Think You're Fooling Me" (Bobby G) – (3.50) Fooling Me"

12" vinyl Released 17 August 1984

Format 7" single · 12" single
1. "Talking in Your Sleep" (Extended Mix) – (8.39)
· EP
2. "Don't Think You're Fooling Me" – (3.50)
Genre Pop
Limited edition EP
Length 4.18
1. "Talking in Your Sleep – (4.18)
Label RCA
2. "Don't Think You're Fooling Me" – (3.50)
3. "Twentieth Century Hero" (Live) (Andy Hill / Pete Sinfield) – (3.20) Songwriter(s) Canler · Skill ·
4. "Don't Pay the Ferryman" (Live) (Chris de Burgh) – (3.56) Palmar · Solley ·
Marinos

Weekly charts Producer(s) Andy Hill

Bucks Fizz singles chronology
Peak
Chart (1984) "Rules of "Talking in "Golden
position
the Game" Your Days"
Ireland (IRMA)[25] 14 (1983) Sleep" (1984)
Poland (LP3)[26] 22 (1984)

UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[22] 15

Cui Jian version

Chinese singer and songwriter Cui Jian covered the song on his 1985 album "'85 " ("'85 Review"/huígù).

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Other covers
Canadian singer The Weeknd interpolates the chorus of "Talking in Your Sleep" in his song "Secrets" from his 2016
album, Starboy.[27]

References
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10. "Le Détail par Artiste" (http://www.infodisc.fr/Tubes_Artistes_R.php). InfoDisc (in French). Select "ROMANTICS"
from the artist drop-down menu. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
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GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
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