The Captain of Her Heart (1985)

Wasn't it recorded phonetically, like an Abba song?

I remember that song without playing the video. I was seven when it came out.

I'd put it in an 80s ethereal category like "Sailing" and "Africa".

No, I have never heard this dead boring song before.

But it sounds like something that should have been playing in a movie montage, while Rachel Ward rolled around on a beach or something.

I remember it alternating with "The Way It Is" and "Words Get in the Way" almost constantly in the summer of 1986.

Great song. Also covered by Randy Crawford.

It didn't sound like anything else in the 80s. It easily could have come out in the 90s.

Yes, I definitely remember it. There was something very haunting about the melody - perfect song to listen to on a warm summer night when you're sitting at an outdoor café near the waterfront.

It sounds plush. I remember hearing this at the time on the stereo speakers in the back of grandpa’s big old Cadillac when I was on a visit to the Florida Gulf Coast.

I don't think much about romantic relationships with women, not being heterosexual and all.

R9 do you only listen to gay male singers?

Maybe he prefers "you" songs, r10.

Oddly enough, yes R10. I own several hard drives full of ca. 2005-2015 LGBT artists, castoffs of a defunct web radio station.

Yes, r5. I love Randy Crawford's version. The original never made an impression. It sounded out of place and old-fashioned alongside the music of the 80s. Although listening to it just now it sounds better than I remembered.

I can't believe you compared this song to anything by Jon Secada.

Just Another Day

Curse you for recalling that song to my mind, OP. It's one of my most hated, schlock, get-out-of-the-elevator-when-it-starts earworms of trashy by-numbers music.

And now it's looping in my head. Gaaaaah!!!!

R9/12 is frustrated because likely a majority of Dataloungers don't know or care that a large gay music scene exists, and that the artists actually use the correct gender pronouns. If you're gay that is. Instead, we get threads about absolute drek like "Captain of Her Heart", as if it should have deep meaning to our lives.

It's OK to open the door and peek into that forbidden world, at link.

Double is now Single.

I love how this song has triggered so many angry posters

Tedious melody line.

Stupid lyrics.

What’s not to love?

And Double is pronounced Doo-blay.

Agreed, R5 and R13, the Randy Crawford cover version is terrific!

One of the most shiteous songs ever to grace the airwaves.

[quote] I remember it alternating with "The Way It Is" and "Words Get in the Way" almost constantly in the summer of 1986.

If I heard all three in a row I'd run into traffic.

That would have been dangerous, r24. This was in Georgetown, while much of Wisconsin Avenue was under construction.

Wow! It’s been ages since I listened to this song. I love ‘80s music and used to listen to Casey Kasem’s AT40 countdown . Listening to it now on repeat.

Cheesy ‘80s song in the same vein as The Lady in Red by Chris de Burgh and I love them both!

Vocal reminds me of Taco "Puttin on the Ritz"

I agree with R7, something very haunting about it. Always liked it when it was newly released, pleasant to hear it again. Thanks, OP.

The key change is everything.

Hated this boring song with a passion then. Do now too.

Great song to learn on piano

Yaaawwn

Perfect for a DL real time singalong!

Isnt it funny how I forget so many songs,people,movies etc and sure enough,some equally ancient crone on DL digs it out! I loved this when it was played,but had totally forgotten it existed.

I still prefer the Randy Crawford cover version, but the music video from the original features DL favorite, teen-aged Denise Richards!

[quote]Great song to learn on piano

Because you only hit five white and two black keys.

Always liked this song!

where is Denise Richards in the video?

Its funny you’re in high school thinking they’re hot and older and mature and now it’s they're so young and still kinda hot.

I hated this song in the 80s and I hate it now.

I would always be the captain of her heart.

Sorry... on the list of 80's schmaltz ballads, the Captain was totally inferior to Mr. Red. Mr. Simply Red. Holding Back the Years.

Never heard that song. To me it sounds like a Johnny Hates Jazz ballad, but without the band's lead singer, Clark Datchier.

I had to live through the years of hearing so many of these songs endlessly looping on the radio. Soul-crushing, mind-numbing drek. Elevator music hell. So, not really wanting to re-visit them. lol. Simply Red, I'm talking to you.

Would this be considered New Romantic or still New Wave?

R39, Denise Richards is at :53 in the video.

elevator musik

R43 it's nothing like that lame Simply Red song

Randy Crawford's version of "Holding Back The Years" is pretty good too.

Invented for hotel lobbies

Who doesn't love hotel lobbies?

Yeah, I remember this song. I don't think it was a great song. Somehow, it reminds me of "Lady in Red," which came out in 1986.

I remember the song but you missed the date. It came out in 1980.

Simply Red was terrible too. It's like this thread is quarantine for shitty 80s songs and the losers who loved them.

Yes, I remember it and I like it. For some reason it reminds me of “Brandy” by Looking Glass and “Piano In the Dark” by Brenda Russell.

I liked it at the time. A lot of hit ballads at the time were these overblown, pompous affairs. This was sort of a jazzy, minor chords sort of thing, kind of like Sade.

Randy’s version:

[quote] I hated this song in the 80s and I hate it now.

Amen, sister.

Some bitches have less than no taste.

R59 Jackee?

Very Bruce Hornsby

Yes, r61. It and "The Way It Is" were interchangeable in my mind. Until I learned what "The Way It Is" is about.

I bought the 45.

BUT I don't think I ever played it since....just a vague memory. But I remember the little cover it came in. Odd.

Reminds me of Drive - there were a lot of these sorts of songs in the mid-80s.

Oh R44 I love that song by Johnny Hates Jazz. I only discovered it after 2000, though. When I hear it, I think of songs like Swing Out Sister's "Breakout" and Matt Bianco's (with Basia) "More than I Can Bear"

I don't know how anyone could think that Randy Crawford's version of that song is any better than Double's. They're both horrible.

And Basia? Boy, there was a flash in the pan.

r66 I can agree with you with artists like Basia, though. She's good in small doses. I personally like Randy Crawford's cover, however.

Chill song

I was seven when this song came out. Not a Henley or Eagles fan, but it's sort of unusual in the same way as "Captain"

Jon Secada performed at the wedding of Brooke Shields and Andre Agassi.

Double consists of just two members, but the Captain video duplicates them. Hence, the title of their band.