Talking in Your Sleep (The Romantics song)

"Talking in Your Sleep"
Single by the Romantics
from the album In Heat
B-side"I'm Hip"
ReleasedSeptember 1983
Recorded1983
Genre
Length3:54
LabelNemperor
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Peter Solley
The Romantics singles chronology
"No One Like You"
(1981)
"Talking in Your Sleep"
(1983)
"Rock You Up"
(1983)
Audio sample
The Romantics – "Talking in Your Sleep"

"Talking in Your Sleep" is a song by American rock band the Romantics. Released in September 1983, It became the band's most successful single in the US, reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1984, being their only US Top 10 hit. The song would have a release two months later in Australia and New Zealand, a release later that year in Japan, and in January 1984 in the UK. It failed to chart in both countries.[4] It became a UK hit in August that year for British group Bucks Fizz. The song is in natural minor.[5]

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