Waiting for a Girl Like You – Foreigner

Chart Position: 2

• #19 bestseller for 1982
• #80 on Billboard’s Hot 100 of all time
• Written by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones
• Lead vocals: Lou Gramm
• Keyboards: Thomas Dolby, Mick Jones, Bob Mayo
• Backing vocals: Mick Jones, Rick Wills, Dennis Elliott, Robert ‘Mutt’ Lange, Ian Lloyd
• Recorded in New York City NY
• Produced by Robert ‘Mutt’ Lange and Mick Jones
• This song spent a record-breaking 10 weeks in the #2 chart position, but was kept out of #1 by Olivia Newton-John’s ‘Physical’ (1981) and Daryl Hall & John Oates’ ‘I Can’t Go for That’ (1981)
• Later recorded by Joe Lynn Turner (1999, Rick Springfield (2005), Julio Iglesias (2006),  Jordan Knight (2006), Paul Anka (2007), Cliff Richard (2007), Tigeroar (2009), Heat Waves (2014) and many others