Let's Hear It for the Boy Let's Hear It for the Boy "Let's Hear It for the Boy" was the second number-one song for Deniece Williams and appeared on the soundtrack to the feature film "Footloose". It climbed to number one on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 on May 26, 1984, as well as number one on the dance and R&B charts, and peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, and was certified platinum in the US, gold in Canada and silver in the UK by the RIAA, Music Canada and the British
Let It Down own. The producer's cosmic sound proved a perfect complement to the artist's cosmic vision." Author Robert Rodriguez groups "Let It Down" with other Beatles-era compositions such as "All Things Must Pass", "Isn't It a Pity" and "Wah-Wah", as the "essential components" of an album that was "revelatory, helping the public understand that, with a talent this big alongside two acknowledged geniuses [in Lennon and McCartney], no wonder the group could not remain intact". In his album review for the "NME", Alan Smith noted "Let It Down"'s "big fuzzy" introduction against its verses' "quiet acid float" and admired the "romantic delicacy