2003Released
3:40

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Interesting facts and trivia about Tell It to My Heart. By Songfacts®.

This worldwide hit was Taylor Dayne's first single, catching the wave of late '80s dance music in a song about passion and feeling - it's her heart that wants to hear that blue talk. Dayne was still known as Leslie Wunderman when she put her voice on the demo of this song, which was written by the professional songwriters Seth Swirsky and Ernie Gold. With some catchy production by Sony's Ric Wake and Clive Davis overseeing the project, it had lots of talent behind it and launched the career of Taylor Dayne, who got a record deal with Sony's subsidiary Arista Records.

When Seth Swirsky wrote this song, he was thinking Madonna, but when he heard Dayne sing it, he knew she was the right choice. In a Songfacts interview with Seth Swirsky, he said: "I gave them the song immediately. Didn't even think, 'Okay, people won't dig the song, maybe we should give it to another artist.' I absolutely believed then, and I believe now, that if somebody is desperate to do something, if they have a passion to do it, it comes out in the recording and there's no reason to say no to it. You've gotta go with a good flow, a good energy. And when I heard what Ric Wake had done, I thought, This sounds like a smash to me. This really sounds like a total smash."

"Tell It To My Heart" was released as a 12-inch single that was an instant hit thanks to its massive popularity in dance clubs. Says Swirsky: "I think it hit San Francisco and Miami first. It really started to take off, and they had no album. They recorded the rest of the album in like six weeks, because they needed to put something out. Meanwhile, the 12-inch that was out with the four cuts of 'Tell It To My Heart' on it sold almost a million copies. It was really crazy."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Tell It to My Heart.
C♯Key
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
118BPM

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Arista/BMG Heritage
(P) 2003 BMG Heritage

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