Bob Heatlie
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Bob Heatlie is a Scottish songwriter and produced and has worked Music industry creating songs for the chats and also television.
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[edit] Background
Born Robert Heatlie, 1946, (Craigmillar, Edinburgh) is a instrumental repertoire includes saxophone, drums, and piano.
[edit] Hit songs
His most successful and prominent songs are "Japanese Boy" and "Merry Christmas Everyone", both substantial 1980s pop chart hits across Europe and beyond. "Japanese Boy" (released by the German label Hansa) was a novelty hit recorded by Aneka, a fellow Scot. It sold in excess of 4.5 million copies.
Heatlie wrote arguably his finest pop songs in "Cry Just A Little Bit" in 1983 and "Breaking Up My Heart" for Shakin' Stevens in 1985. The song was another hit (helped in part by a music video). Coincidentally, it was also the song that Stevens performed for his record-setting 50th appearance on the BBC's Top of the Pops weekly UK music chart television programme on 7 March that year.
"Merry Christmas Everyone" was first recorded by Shakin' Stevens, reaching the top of the charts in many European territories around Christmas 1985. "Merry Christmas Everyone" has since become an annual mainstay of radio airplay in and around the December holidays.
Heatlie also wrote an album track "Woman (What Have You Done To Me) for Shaky on the 1988 album "A Whole Lotta Shaky". A remixed version of the same song was featured within The Shakin' Stevens release "The Epic Masters Box Set" in 2009. Heatlie also co-produced and remixed no less than nine songs on Shaky's album "A Whole Lotta Shaky". The last single Heatlie worked on with Shaky was the single "Radio" which featured Roger Taylor from Queen.
[edit] Current status
In later years, Heatlie concentrated on doing musical compositions for children's television. One of the programmes include The Trap Door, Percy the Park Keeper, Kipper, Fun House, Anthony Ant, Little Robots and Sheeep. He also composed the music for the documentary series Worlds Apart and the television special The Curious Case of Santa Claus.
[edit] Songwriting credits
[edit] Solo
- Aneka - "Japanese Boy" (Single, 8 August 1981, UK No. 1)
- Cliff Richard - "Locked Inside Your Prison" (Album track on Silver, October 1983, UK No. 7)
- Shakin' Stevens - "Cry Just A Little Bit" (Single, 5 November 1983, UK No. 3)
- Shakin' Stevens - "Breaking Up My Heart" (Single, 2 March 1985, UK No. 14)
- Shakin' Stevens - "Merry Christmas Everyone" (Single, 7 December 1985, UK No. 1)
- Ann Turner - "Too Hot To Handle" (Runner-up in the UK's Song For Europe Eurovision Song Contest selection TV programme, 1987)
- Shakin' Stevens - Woman (What Have You Done To Me) (Album track on "A Whole Lotta Shaky" 1988)
[edit] With Gordon Campbell
- Local Hero - "Why Don't You" (B-Side to the single "Daydream Believer")
- Anya - "Moscow Nights" (Single, 1985)
- Shakin' Stevens - "Radio" (Single, 10 October 1992, UK No. 37)
[edit] For TV
- The Trap Door (Children's animated television series) theme tune. Vocals performed by Zygott.
- Little Robots
- Kipper
- Sheeep
- Composed with David Pringle
- Fun House theme tune.
- Wheel of Fortune theme tune
[edit] External links
- Bob Heatlie at the Internet Movie Database
- Bob Heatlie discography at Discogs
- The Official Shakin' Stevens Website
