JENNIFER RUSH V LAURA BRANIGAN The Power Of Love

A very different vibe to my last post with two rock chicks together; here I have two big voiced American singers on one of the biggest songs of the era of big hair and oversized shoulder pads - the 1980&&Power Of Love&was first recorded in 1984 by one of its co-writers - Jennifer Rush, and the song was HUGE around the world; including here in Australia where it made and in Britain where it became the best selling single of 1985; the 9th highest for the entire decade, and the first woman to achieve a million selling single in that country! Quite incredulously, America didn&embrace their own songstress with &Power Of Love¬ even cracking the Billboard Top 40. Maybe it was because Jennifer was based in Germany, but despite a prolific recording career and major success in Europe and in Australasia, only one track bearing her name cracked the Billboard Top 40 - a duet with Elton John &of Paradise&which made in 1987. &Power Of Love&has been famously covered many times since the original landed - most notably Air Supply&in 1985 (the same year it charted for Jennifer) and Celine Dion who recorded it in 1993. But I decided to pit another big voiced singer against the mighty Jennifer Rush - the late, and great Laura Branigan who could belt out the ballads as well as the dance and pop confections that made her a name around the world with hits such as &&Control&and &just to name a few. Laura recorded this classic in 1987 for her &LP and it would become her final Top 40 outing...