BODY ROCK – MARIA VIDAL

Chart performance:

Week	Position	Movement	Comments
08-Feb-85	27	New
15-Feb-85	26	+1
22-Feb-85	20	+6	Biggest climber/Star rater
01-Mar-85	16	+4	Star rater
08-Mar-85	12	+4	Star rater
15-Mar-85	9	+3
22-Mar-85	5	+4	Star rater/Peak
29-Mar-85	5	0	Peak
05-Apr-85	6	-1
12-Apr-85	8	-2
19-Apr-85	8	0
26-Apr-85	11	-3
03-May-85	13	-2
10-May-85	17	-4
17-May-85	22	-5

Written by: John Bettis & Silvester Levay
Produced by: Phil Galston, Phil Ramone & Silvester Levay
South African record label (unless otherwise stated): EMI America

Hit number for artist	1
Peak position	5
Weeks	15
Biggest climber awards	1
Star rater climbs	4
Biggest faller awards	0
Top 20 points	122
Overall Top 20 points ranking	=914
Top 20 points ranking for the artist	1
Top 30 Points	260
Overall Top 30 points ranking	=849
Top 30 points ranking for the artist	1

Annual ranking:

1985

37

Other chart success:

Australia	26
Germany	16
Sweden	14
Switzerland	6
UK	11
US	48
Zimbabwe	1

SA Radio charts:

Capital 604	29
Radio 5	15
Radio 702	16

The song was the theme tune to the 1984 film ‘Body Rock’ which starred Lorenzo Lamas (who had played Lance Cumson in the television soap opera ‘Falcon Crest’) and Vicki Frederick (who had made appearances in the TV shows ‘Mork & Mindy’, ‘Happy Days’ and ‘Murder She Wrote’).

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Artist link: Maria Vidal

MARIA VIDAL (US)

Born: 1 August 1960
Full name: Maria Elena Vidal

Maria was born in in Florida but moved to New York at some point. Here she would meet Desmond Childs and became his girlfriend. She would work at a diner and because of her resemblance to the actress Gina Lollobrigida, she got the nickname Gina. A few years later, Childs would see a song he had co-written called ‘Livin’ On A Prayer’, be a big hit for Bon Jovi. The song contains the line ‘Gina works the diner all day’. But before that Maria and Childs would release a couple of albums as part of the group Desmond Childs & Rouge. When the band broke up, she recorded ‘Body Rock’ for a film of the same name which starred Lorenzo Lomas who was probably best known in South Africa for his role as Lance Cumson in the soap opera ‘Falcon Crest’. ‘Body Rock’ would go to 11 in the UK and 48 in the US. This would be her only hit. She has done backing vocals for acts such as Aerosmith, Belinda Carlisle and Celine Dion amongst others and has seen songs she wrote or co-wrote with Desmond Childs be recorded by Belinda Carlisle and Ace of Base.

Date of entry	Song	Peak (weeks at 1)	Weeks
08-Feb-1985	Body Rock	5	15
		Total hits	1
		Total weeks	15

Biggest climber awards	1
Star rater climbs	4
Biggest fallers	0
Weeks with oldest in the charts	0
Longest run in the charts (weeks)	15
Weeks with more than 1 in the charts	0
Biggest gap between hits (weeks)	0
Top 30 points ranking	=660
Top 20 points ranking	=657
Top 30 points	260
Top 20 points	122