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,
Til I Hear It from You Til I Hear It from You "Til I Hear It from You" is a song by the Gin Blossoms that was released as the lead single from the soundtrack to the film "Empire Records" in August 1995. In January 1996, it was re-released as a double-A side single with "Follow You Down". "Billboard" magazine described "Til I Hear It from You" as "the closest thing to a perfect pop song to hit radio in recent memory" lauding its "breezy and wonderfully infectious melody, the boy-needs-girl lyrics, and the earnest execution." Gin Blossoms' guitarist Jesse Valenzuela would write an embryonic version