Hot Line to Heaven

Infobox Single
Name = Hot Line to Heaven


Artist = Bananarama
from Album = Bananarama
B-side = State I'm In
Released = November 1984
Format = 7" single, 12" single
Recorded = November 1983
Genre = Pop, New Wave
Length =
Label = London Records
Writer = Sara Dallin
Siobhan Fahey
Keren Woodward
Jolley & Swain
Producer = Jolley & Swain
Chart position =
Last single = "King of the Jungle"
(1984
This single = "Hot Line to Heaven"
(1984)
Next single = "The Wild Life"
(1984)"Hot Line to Heaven" is a song written and performed by English girl group Bananarama. The song appears on their second, self-titled album and was released as a single in the UK in 1984.

In its album version, "Hot Line to Heaven" is a seven-plus-minutes mid-tempo pop song. It was edited to about three-and-a-half minutes for its single release. After Bananarama recorded the soundtrack song "The Wild Life" (from the film of the same name), the edited version of "Hot Line to Heaven" was pressed onto the "Bananarama" album in order to make room for the late-addition of "The Wild Life". This was only a temporary pressing, however, as "Bananarama"'s track listing was restored several months later, with the full version of "Hot Line to Heaven" intact.

The single did not perform well on the charts and was not released anywhere but in the UK. As was the case with the "Bananarama" album, the dark lyrical content did not meet with mainstream acceptance and became the group's lowest charting UK single since their debut "Aie a Mwana".

The music video features the girls trying to persuade a record executive to be interested in their demo tapes. When they eventually show up as angels in his hallucinations, he relents.

Charts