Expert: Bong Santos - 9/22/2006

Question
1st - Song from 80s -- title is "Hypnotized" or "Hypnotize Me". Lyrics go "Hypnotized there's no way out... Hypnotized to sweet surrender... Hypnotized...". 2nd - Song whose lyrics go something like "I was wrong... I never should have been there with someone else...". 3rd This duet who's title's "Once Love Touches Your Heart", and it's kind of a pop/easy listening sort of melody. Please help!Hi there! You're a great resource! Hope ya can help me out! 1st - This song from the 80s -- I think the title is "Hypnotized" or "Hypnotize Me", but I can't be sure. Among the lyrics are something like "Hypnotized there's no way out... Hypnotized to sweet surrender... Hypnotized...". 2nd - A song whose lyrics go something like "I was wrong... I never should have been there with someone else...". 3rd -- This duet by this girl that sounds a bit like Sheena Easton, and this guy who I don't know. Think the title's "Once Love Touches Your Heart", and it's kind of a pop/easy listening sort of melody to it (kinda like the Alessi Brothers' "Oh Lori"). Been trying to find out the actual titles and the artists of those three songs for YEARS, but I haven't been able to. Hope you can help! Thanks!

Answer
Dear Wilson,

Your first song is something out of the discos of the late 80's. HYPNOTIZED by a group called COPY-RIGHT. Released in 1987, it was a big hit in the Philippines, although the group remain a mystery.
The second has vague infos and I can't seem to recognize it.
The third one is no doubt ONCE LOVE TOUCHES YOUR LIFE. A duet between two late artists who also gave us the timeless WITH YOU I'M BORN AGAIN, SYREETA, STEVIE WONDER's ex-wife who died on July 6, 2004, and BILLY PRESTON, affectionately called the fifth Beatle who died on June 6, 2006. It is from SYREETA's 1983 album THE SPELL.

Maraming salamat po!

BONG M. SANTOS
Manila, Philippines

My apology, ONCE LOVE TOUCHES YOUR LIFE is by SYREETA and JERMAINE JACKSON. - Bong