Boy Meets Girl

Boy Meets Girl is a band consisting of keyboardist and vocalist George Merrill and singer Shannon Rubicam. They are known for their hit song "Waiting For A Star To Fall" from 1988. The song was involved in a "sample battle&q

Boy Meets Girl is a band consisting of keyboardist and vocalist George Merrill and singer Shannon Rubicam. They are known for their hit song "Waiting For A Star To Fall" from 1988. The song was involved in a "sample battle" in 2005, as two electronic music groups, Cabin Crew and Sunset Strippers both wanted to sample the song and remix it to become a hit again. Sunset Strippers, from the UK, won the right for the samples from the band's label, releasing "Falling Stars". However, Cabin Crew from Australia, had met Boy Meets Girl, and they had re-recorded the vocals for the remixed song, entitled "Star To Fall" or "Star2Fall". In the same year, Scottish electronic musician Mylo had also used samples of the song, but mixing it with another song, "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes.

The members of Boy Meets Girl, George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, wrote a number of songs for other artists. Most famous are their two number one hits written for Whitney Houston, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" and "How Will I Know". They also wrote the songs "Don't Tell Me We Have Nothing" and "Haunting Me" for Deniece Williams and the song "I Know You By Heart", performed by Bette Midler on the Beaches soundtrack. The duo also performed backing vocals on Deniece Williams' number one hit, "Let's Hear It For The Boy". George Merrill also sang backing vocals on Bette Midler's Some People's Lives album.