Waiting for a Star to Fall

November 30, 1988

Waiting For a Star to Fall is a song by Boy Meets Girl from 1988. The song was released on 30 November 1988 as a single. It reached number 9 in January 1989 the UK Top 40 In the USA, the success was even bigger and the single reached # 5 on the Billboard Hot 100

The song was originally written for Whitney Houston and composed, but Houston felt the song was not suitable for them. Then the song Belinda Carlisle should be here for, which recorded a demo of the song for her album Heaven on Earth. The demo recording remained unreleased. Only years later it was published on the Internet.