The 100 Greatest Lost Hits of The 80’s Part 2: The New Batch

From: NewNowNext

 #9 

“Romeo’s Tune” 

Steve Forbert

American singer-songwriter Steve Forbert hit the chart just once, but it was with the terrific pop/rocker “Romeo’s Tune,” which hit #11 in March 1980. Even though it was written about a girl in Steve’s Mississippi home town, he dedicated it to to the memory of Florence Ballard because “that seemed like such bad news to me and such sad news. She wasn’t really taken care of by the music business, which is not a new story.”

Steve has continued to record, with his songs covered by such artists as Roseanne Cash and Keith Urban (who recorded his own version of “Romeo’s Tune”), and here’s a bizarre bit of trivia: Steve played Cyndi Lauper’s boyfriend in the video for “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!”