Huey Lewis Songs Ranked

Huey Lewis was born in New York City. His father, Hugh Anthony Cregg Jr., was an Irish-American from Boston, and his mother, Maria Magdalena Barcinski, was Polish, from Warsaw.^[2][3][4] His grandfather, Hugh Cregg, was the district attorney of Essex County, Massachusetts from 1931 to 1959.
In 1971 Lewis joined the Bay Area band, Clover. Around this time he took the stage name “Hughie Louis”, the spelling of which he would tinker with for some years after. Other members of the band (at various points) included John McFee, Alex Call. Lewis played harmonica and sang lead vocals on a few tunes.
His song “The Power of Love” was a No. 1 U.S. hit and was featured in the 1985 film Back to the Future, for which they also recorded the song, “Back in Time”. Lewis has a cameo appearance in the film as a faculty member who rejects Marty McFly’s band’s audition for the school’s “Battle of the Bands” contest. As an inside joke, the piece the band plays is an instrumental heavy metal version of “The Power of Love”. (Lewis plays the audition committee leader, who, after glancing at the other, equally unimpressed fellow faculty members, picks up the megaphone and says, “Hold it, fellas … I’m afraid you’re just too darn loud. Next, please”.) A poster for the album Sports is hanging on Marty’s wall when he awakes at the end of the movie. “The Power of Love” was nominated for an Academy Award. On April 13, 2018, Lewis announced that he had been diagnosed with Ménière’s disease and that he “couldn’t hear well enough to sing”. As a result, the remaining shows scheduled for the 2018 tour were canceled. Here are all of Huey Lewis’ songs ranked.

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10. Doing It All for My Baby (Fore!, 1986)

“The doo wop-ish “Doin’ It All For My Baby” was another good song just not in the same league as the previous albums singles.”

9. Jacob’s Ladder (Fore!, 1986)

“From reading various websites about 80s music, this song apparently targeted television evangelists, which sounds about right. Kind of in the vein of “Jesus He Knows Me”. In comparison, however, the Genesis tune is much better, even though Jacob’s Ladder is much better at sounding like a song of epic proportions.”

8. If This Is It (Sports, 1983)

“Jim said he thought they were saying, “Is this a zit?” I don’t know if he was serious or joking, but ever since then, I totally hear it. In any case, an ultra-catchy song from Huey Lewis and The News. If every song they wrote was this catchy, they’d have been even catchier than they already were.”

7. The Heart of Rock & Roll (Sports, 1983)

“Have you ever thought, really thought, about the sheer awesomeness of this song? An excellent description of rock and roll and what it’s all about. The whole band makes sure you feel it and get the point.”

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6. Perfect World (Small World, 1988)

“Just when you thought Huey Lewis songs were all the same. This latter song shows good writing and horn charts that have me humming this song for days after I hear this one. Very good choice for the greatest hits album.”

5. Heart and Soul (Sports, 1983)

“The guitars really bash entertainingly in the chorus, perhaps one of the only News singles with proper hard rock guitars. I’m much obliged because the riff though simple is very catchy too. Generally, Huey has to share with the music itself center stage a little bit more than is typical, but he’s up to it. The lyrical content is a bit incidental to the music, but neither is it bad. Overall, “Heart and Soul” is a solid relatively rock workout which really makes you wish they had just a few more like it as fine as some of their more lightweight stuff is.”

4. Do You Believe In Love (Picture This, 1982)

“This is one of the great cheesy rock songs of the 1980’s it is better then almost the whole load of John Mellencamp tracks and stuff. This was just a big ball of cheese with that huge freaking hook that killed.”

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3. Hip to Be Square (Fore!, 1986)

“I think their undisputed masterpiece is “Hip to be Square,” a song so catchy, most people probably don’t listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it’s not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it’s also a personal statement about the band itself.”

2. The Power of Love (Back to the Future: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1985)

“I’m 99% positive the only reason I enjoy this song is due to it’s association with Back To The Future, but it’s a damn good song nonetheless. It’s got this pseudo-Motown quality to it, I reckon. Just swap the synthesizers for some horns and you’d have an awkward white guy doing his best Marvin Gaye impression.”

1. Once Upon a Time In New York City (Oliver & Company, 1988)

“Not just my favorite song from Oliver & Company, but my favorite Disney song of all time! This is one of those records that when I put it on, everyone is going to have a good time.”