In Amazon’s Seventies-set restricted collection Daisy Jones & The Six, the titular band’s music “Have a look at Us Now (Honeycomb)” reaches No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart and propels them to superstardom. In actual life, the tune helped them earn the highest spot on Billboard’s Rising Artists chart in March. Again in 1992, the fictional band from Aaron Spelling’s The Heights discovered comparable real-life success.
The Fox present “a few group of numerous — boys, women; black, white — working-class youngsters making an attempt to make it collectively as a rock band and singularly as adults,” per THR‘s evaluation, produced a success in “How Do You Speak to an Angel.” Written by Steve and Stephanie Tyrell and Barry Coffing, with lead vocals from castmember Jamie Walters (beforehand identified for taking part in Donna’s no-good musician boyfriend Ray Pruit on Spelling’s Beverly Hills, 90210), the music was launched as a single in September 1992, one week after the present premiered. Its infectious refrain — “How do you speak to an angel/How do you maintain her near the place you’re/How do you speak to an angel/It’s like making an attempt to catch a falling star” — caught on shortly, sending it to No. 1 on Billboard’s Prime 40 Mainstream Chart and No. 4 on the Sizzling 100 Singles chart.
The tune’s success took everybody abruptly.
“It’s very unusual to have the document explode,” Heights producer Spelling instructed THR on the time. “I assume that is the cart pulling the horse. We went in with the opposite factor in thoughts. We thought the present would possibly assist the document.” Spelling additionally admitted, “We didn’t even use the document because the [show’s] theme music at first. We did that three weeks later once we heard the one was doing very effectively within the top-40 play.”
Sadly, the present itself didn’t fare as effectively. Regardless of airing in Fox’s plum Thursday 9 p.m. time slot (previously occupied by 90210), The Heights plummeted in scores. Although “How Do You Speak to an Angel” would go on to earn a 1993 Emmy nomination for excellent achievement in music and lyrics, Fox canceled the collection lower than every week after the music fell from No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100.
This story first appeared in a June stand-alone subject of The Hollywood Reporter journal. To obtain the journal, click on right here to subscribe.
