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Video of the Week: Songs that Changed Music: Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights
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Songs You May Have Missed #660
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Kate Bush: “This Woman’s Work” (1988)
Written for the 1988 John Hughes film She’s Having a Baby, “This Woman’s Work” accompanies the film’s climactic scene, in which Jake (played by Kevin Bacon) learns that his wife Kristy (Elizabeth McGovern) is having life-threatening complications during childbirth.
The melancholy song’s lyrics match the subsequent montage in beautiful, heartrending fashion, and are sung from the point of view of a helpless Jake as he recalls their happy times together during what seems an interminable wait for news of his wife and baby.
Kate Bush wrote the song specifically for the film, and matched her words to visuals which had already been filmed.
A slightly edited version appeared on her album The Sensual World the next year, and when the song was released as a single it was tweaked yet again. A fourth version of the song appeared on Bush’s 2011 album Director’s Cut.
This is the original 1988 version from the She’s Having a Baby soundtrack. The film itself comes highly recommended too.
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2015/11/04/songs-you-may-have-missed-566-2/
Songs You May Have Missed #566
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Kate Bush” “Wuthering Heights” (1978/1986)
Written by an 18-year-old Kate Bush and inspired by the novel of the same name by Emily Bronte (with whom Bush shares a birthday) “Wuthering Heights” was the lead single off the artist’s debut album in 1978.
Lines like “let me in, I’m so cold” take on ominous meaning when the listener understands the words are spoken from beyond the grave. Catherine, a ghost, begs entrance at a bedroom window so that she can be forgiven by her lover Heathcliff and freed from her personal purgatory.
Because of Kate Bush’s dissatisfaction with the cover art of the single, its release was delayed from November of 1977 to January 1978. This proved fortuitous as it prevented the song from competing with Wings’ “Mull of Kintyre”, which in December of ’77 became the biggest selling UK single of all time up to that point.
“Wuthering Heights” became a massive UK hit in its own right, spending four weeks at number one. Like all Bush’s work, it fared considerably less well in the US, where the song peaked at #108 on the singles chart, marking the contrast from the start between her star status in her native England and that of cult figure here.
A remixed version with newly-recorded vocals appeared on her 1986 compilation album The Whole Story. This is the version presented here.
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2020/03/28/songs-you-may-have-missed-660/
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