Let's Hear It for the Boy (album) Let's Hear It for the Boy (album) Let's Hear It for the Boy is an album by American recording artist Deniece Williams released in 1984 for Columbia and CBS Records. The album reached number 10 on the "Billboard" pop chart and number 26 on the R&B Albums. It was produced by American multi-instrumentalist George Duke who also actively participated on the record. The album features urban hits "Black Butterfly", "Next Love" and the international hit "Let's Hear It for the Boy" which was featured on the musical-drama "Footloose" and its soundtrack album. Deniece Williams produced six tracks of the album,
Let It Be (The Replacements album) R.E.M.'s "Murmur", the Pixies' "Surfer Rosa", and Sonic Youth's "Daydream Nation". Eric Boehlert of "Salon" called it a "post-punk classic". Singer-songwriter Colin Meloy wrote of "Let It Be" in an edition of the 33⅓ series dedicated to the album: "I listened to "Let It Be" endlessly. The record seemed to encapsulate perfectly all of the feelings that were churning inside me [...] Paul Westerberg's weary voice sounded from my boombox and I trembled to think that here I was, thirteen and the 'hardest age' was still three years in the making." In a 2005 review, "Rolling Stone"s Christian Hoard wrote