Violet and Blue

[bwboy]

I can see why it wasn’t released as a single. The chorus isn’t especially catchy and the song is quite long. I think it would have required major remixing and editing in order to have gotten radio airplay. Against All Odds by Phil Collins really set a high threshold for the soundtrack; plus wasn’t 1984 the year Madonna and Cyndi Lauper hit it big? It’s hard for me to imagine Violet and Blue being played alongside Crazy For You or Time After Time, for example.

I’m not criticizing the song itself, just offering some ideas as to why it wasn’t a single. 1984 would have been an ideal time for a Stevie song on a soundtrack to be released as a single, as it was in between the Wild Heart and Rock a Little.