"Over My Head" was the second single from Toni Basil's 1983 album Toni Basil.[1][3] The song was released as a 12" record by Chrysalis and Virgin Records.[4] The song was also featured on her 1994 greatest hits compilation The Best of Toni Basil: Mickey & Other Love Songs.[5]
Music videoedit
A music video for the song was released, directed by Basil and Michelle Simmons.[6]
Synopsisedit
The video starts with Basil dancing in front of several paperback mystery novels, before being zapped into one of the books. She is suddenly featured in a dark room, clad in vampire-like fashion. She then appears on the cover of another mystery novel, before she is shown stuck on train tracks as a train flies over her. The train suddenly becomes a plane. Basil finally escapes the books and continues dancing in front of them.[7]
The song reached number 81 on the Billboard Hot 100, spending a total of 6 weeks on the chart; it was her final single to reach the Hot 100.[2] The song also went to number 4 on the US Dance chart.[9] "Over My Head" was the final charting single that Basil's record label, Radial Choice, had before folding in 1984.[10]
^ abGruber, Xaque (8 November 2012). "'Mickey' Turns 30: A Closer Look at the One and Only Toni Basil". Huffington Post. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
^"Toni Basil's Tenacious Tumble To 'Mickey'". Cuepoint. 15 September 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
January 01, 1970
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