“Romancing the Stone” by Eddy Grant

Eddy Grant ran the whole show on "Romancing the Stone", writing, recording and producing it himself, and it came out in 1984 on his album Going for Broke. It was meant to be the title song for the film of the same name, and Casey Kasem introduced it that way on American Top 40 that June, but in the end the movie used only a snatch of it. Clips from the picture still turned up in at least one of its videos, and the closing credits give it a nod.

It went over biggest in Canada, reaching number seven, and made 26 on the Hot 100 and 12 on the US dance charts. On the flip sat a live "My Turn to Love You", a song Grant had once made a hit in the Netherlands, pulled from Live at Notting Hill, his only live album, taped at London's Notting Hill Carnival in 1981.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.