"Loverboy" was Billy Ocean

Billy Ocean

Billy Ocean is a Trinidad-born English Grammy Award winning popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular British-based R&B singer / songwriter of the early to mid-1980s...

's second single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 from his 1984 album, Suddenly

Suddenly (Billy Ocean album)

Suddenly is the fifth studio album by Billy Ocean, released in 1984. It featured his first major U.S. pop hit single "Caribbean Queen ", which reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 record chart.-Track listing:...

. It was produced

Record producer

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 by Robert John "Mutt" Lange and reached a chart

Record chart

A record chart is a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....

 high of number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

, and number 15 on the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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 in February 1985. It also reached the top spot of the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the U.S., in an extended version. The track was released on the Jive

Jive Records

Jive Records was a record label based in New York City, operating under RCA Music Group. Jive was primarily known for a string of successes with hip hop artists in the 1980s, and in teen pop and boy bands in the late 1990s. The word "jive" was inspired by Township Jive, a form of South African...

 label

Record label

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 under the catalogue reference, JIVE 800.

The song gained a reputation in the first episode of the 1986 soap opera Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...

when nurse Charlie Fairhead drives into Holby A&E in 1986.

The song also featured in the sitcom 'Dear John' where the character Kirk St Moritz played by Peter Blake can be seen dancing to the song in a highly amusing fashion.

Charts

Chart (1985)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	15
Canadian Singles Chart	6
German Singles Chart	12
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	2
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	20
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play	1