1977 Gladys Knight & the Pips Piero Umiliani ABBA Blue The Trammps Boz Scaggs Electric Light Orchestra Marvin Gaye Van McCoy Carole Bayer Sager The Jacksons Barbra Streisand Kenny Rogers Sex Pistols Rod Stewart
1987
Tom Jones Bruce Willis Run‐D.M.C. John Farnham Samantha Fox Wet Wet Wet johnny Hates Jazz U2 George Michael Starship Johnny Logan Whitney Houston "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" was written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, who wrote Houston's 1985 song "How Will I Know," which became successful, and as a result, they were asked to come up with another song for Houston's then-new album. Originally the song that gave Merrill and Rubicam their US/UK top ten success as Boy Meets Girl, "Waiting For a Star to Fall" was intended by the duo to be a song for Houston
