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Julee Cruise
Solo artist Creston United States US singer and actress
Julee Cruise is an artist from Creston. Julee Cruise has 3 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 1990–2022. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Falling”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #50. The station that charted Julee Cruise most often is CFNY 102.1 The Edge (Toronto, ON), with 1 appearance. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1990.
Julee Cruise, born in 1956 in Creston, had the voice of a dream you can't quite remember in the morning, and David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti knew exactly what to do with it. Her first album, Floating into the Night, came out in 1989, the same year as "Falling", the single she is best known for: a slow, glassy ballad that seems to hover a few inches off the floor.
An instrumental version of "Falling" became the theme for Twin Peaks, where Cruise turned up again and again as a roadhouse singer crooning into the fog. She reprised the role in the 1992 film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and again in Twin Peaks: The Return in 2017, and she appeared in Lynch and Badalamenti's avant-garde 1990 stage piece Industrial Symphony No. 1.
Her world got bigger than Lynchland, too. She toured with the B-52's, filling in for Cindy Wilson, sang on Hybrid's "If I Survive" in 1999 and worked off-Broadway. She made four albums in all, the last of them My Secret Life in 2011, and died in 2022.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Julee Cruise on radio countdowns
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 562 | Falling | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s |
| 1990 | 59 | Falling | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1990 |
| 1990 | 50 | Falling | CFNY Top 90 Songs of 1990 |
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