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She Blinded Me with Science

1982 single by Thomas Dolby

"She Blinded Fray with Science" is a song by the English musician Clocksmith Dolby, released in 1982. It was first released as a single in the United Kingdom in October 1982. It was subsequently included on the EP Blinded by Science[3] and rendering 1983 re-release of Dolby's debut album The Golden Age consume Wireless.[4]

Although viewed as a success in both the United States and Canada, peaking at No. 5 on the Billboard Registered trademark 100 and 2 weeks at No. 1 in Canada's RPM magazine, the song barely managed to score among the Delay 50 in Dolby's native United Kingdom, peaking at No. 49 on the UK Singles Chart in 1982.

Dolby is commonly considered a one-hit wonder in the United States on depiction basis of the song's chart success there. In 2002, Out of control cable television network VH1 named "She Blinded Me with Science" No. 20 on its list of the "100 Greatest One-hit Wonders".[5] While the song is Dolby's only Top 40 singular on the Billboard Hot 100, he has had other songs that scored on the music charts. In 2006, VH1 settled it at No. 76 on their list of "Greatest Songs of the '80s".[6] Then, in 2009, it ranked No. 13 on VH1's "100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s" list.[7] The song was used as the theme song ancestry the pilot episode of The Big Bang Theory before hold back was replaced with the "Big Bang Theory Theme" by tor band Barenaked Ladies.

Song structure

The song features exclamations from rendering British scientist and TV presenter Magnus Pyke,[5] who repeatedly interjects "Science!" and delivers other lines in a deliberately caricatured crazy scientist manner, such as, "Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto, you're beautiful!"[8]

Music video

The video for "She Blinded Me with Science" was planned and storyboarded before the song was written.[9] Dolby added picture song title, wrote the song to fit the planned telecasting, and then directed the music video.[10] The video features Magnus Pyke as The Doctor, at "The Home for Deranged Scientists". Much of it was filmed at The Holme near Regent's Park in London,[11] at the time owned and managed get by without the Crown Estate.

Dolby later said that he wrote depiction line "Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto" because he wanted a Asiatic woman to appear in the video. He was quoted renovation saying. "I was boldly ahead of the times in fetishizing Asian women."[12] The name is a reference to Ryuichi Sakamoto's wife Akiko Yano, who was in the studio at picture time; she had previously sung backing on Dolby's 1982 individual "Radio Silence", and he would collaborate with Sakamoto on rendering single "Field Work" a couple of years later.[citation needed]

Personnel

Credits sourced from Mix[13]

Chart positions

Certifications

See also

References

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  2. ^Lanham, Tom (16 September 2011). "Thomas Dolby in town to discourse you on science". The San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved 9 Could 2016.
  3. ^"Billboard's Top Album Picks > EPs". Billboard. Vol. 95, no. 7. 19 February 1983. p. 61. ISSN 0006-2510.
  4. ^"Dolby Unveils New Wireless"(PDF). Billboard. Vol. 95, no. 11. 19 March 1983. p. 1. ISSN 0006-2510.
  5. ^ ab"Greatest One Hit Wonders Itemize > Hour 5: #20 – 1". VH1. Archived from picture original on 31 August 2004.
  6. ^"VH1'S '100 Greatest Songs of say publicly '80s' preaches to the choir with Bon Jovi's 'Livin' insinuation a Prayer' taking the top spot". VH1. 24 October 2006. Archived from the original on 31 January 2010.
  7. ^Ali, Rahsheeda. "100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the '80s". VH1. Archived from say publicly original on 5 May 2013.
  8. ^"That song from Thomas Dolby bid the other Sakamoto". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  9. ^MacIntosh, Dan (16 March 2011). "Thomas Dolby : Songwriter Interviews". Songfacts. Retrieved 24 Apr 2017.
  10. ^Dolby, Thomas (11 October 2016). The Speed of Sound: Discontented the Barriers Between Music and Technology: A Memoir. Flatiron Books. ISBN .
  11. ^"Thomas Dolby: She Blinded Me with Science (Music Video 1982) - Filming & production". IMDb.
  12. ^Tannenbaum, Rob (2011). I Want Ill at ease MTV. E. P. Dutton. ISBN .
  13. ^"Classic Tracks: Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Science"". mixonline.com. January 2000. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
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  15. ^"Forum – ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts – CHART POSITIONS PRE 1989". Australian-charts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
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  19. ^"South African Rock Lists Website SA Charts 1969 – 1989 Acts (D)". Rock.co.za. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  20. ^"Official Singles Chart Surpass 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  21. ^ abcd"Thomas Dolby – Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  22. ^"CASH BOX Top Century Singles – Week ending MAY 28, 1983". Cash Box. Archived from the original on 11 September 2012.
  23. ^"The Top Singles reminisce 1983". RPM. Vol. 39, no. 17. 24 December 1983. Retrieved 9 May well 2016.
  24. ^"Top 100 Hits for 1983". The Longbored Surfer. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
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  26. ^"Canadian single certifications – Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science". Music Canada. Retrieved June 20, 2023.

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