Talk It Over Lyrics

In 1986, Grayson Hugh was commuting from Hartford, CT. to suburban New Jersey to co-write with songwriter Sandy Linzer. One day while searching through his old tapes, Linzer played Grayson a song that Smokey Robinson had rejected called "Talk It Over". Grayson heard a classic soul hit in that song and asked Linzer if he could arrange it. Hugh took the song home , with Sandy Linzer"s permission, slowed it way down, added a couple chords and recorded a demo of it. RCA records heard it in 1987, along with other songs written by Grayson, and signed him in that year as a singer/songwriter. As an interesting footnote, Linzer and Hugh's own publisher constructed a "right of first release" deal, unbeknownst to Hugh, for Olivia Newton-John to record "Talk It Over". Though RCA was planning the song as Hugh's first single, they had to wait until Miss Newton-John's version fizzled. RCA then released Grayson's recording of it. The rest is history, as Hugh's version soared to the US Top Twenty Charts, the single going gold in Australia, establishing the newcomer Hugh as an exciting new soul singer. It also became an international hit. The accompanying video, which Hugh filmed in England with director Nick Brandt, also became a hit, playing in heavy rotation on VH1 during the spring and summer of 1989.