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"Heaven Must Have Sent You" is a song written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland when at Motown, and first recorded by The Elgins in 1966. It was also a 1979 disco hit single by Bonnie Pointer .
The Elgins were an American vocal group on the Motown label, active from the late 1965 to 1967. Their most successful record was "Heaven Must Have Sent You", written and produced by the Holland–Dozier–Holland team, [1] which was a hit in the US in 1966, and in the UK when reissued in 1971.
Patricia Eva "Bonnie" Pointer (July 11, 1950 – June 8, 2020) was an American singer, best known for having been a member of the vocal group the Pointer Sisters.Pointer scored several moderate solo hits after leaving the Pointer Sisters in 1977, including a disco cover of the Elgins' "Heaven Must Have Sent You" which became a U.S. top 20 pop hit on September 1, 1979.
Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams recorded the song (titled, incorrectly, as "Heaven Must Have Sent You", an entirely different Motown song, on some releases) for their 1978 album, That's What Friends Are For. Stephen Bishop and Yvonne Elliman recorded "Your Precious Love" for the soundtrack of the 1980 movie, Roadie.
Zesty backing voices matched Pointer's stinging vocal. However, the anti-women's-lib lyrics didn't go over well in the '70s. She displays softness on "My Everything", a classy ballad that isn't her forte. And she's back in her element on the disco-arranged "Heaven Must Have Sent You," but it doesn't get interesting until she starts growling.
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The album did not chart, but to promote it, a new version of "Heaven Must Have Sent You Back to Me" was released as the fourth single and charted at number 70. [3] The music video for the single was directed by Chris Lowe .