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Julee Cruise is an American pop singer and actress best known for the lead vocal on “Falling”, the theme for the cult television series Twin Peaks. Until recently, she was a frequent collaborator with composer Angelo Badalamenti and director David Lynch, who produced and wrote the lyrics for most of her songs.

Born on 1 December 1956, Cruise studied French horn at Drake University and performed as a singer and actress in New York, where she also worked as a talent scout for Angelo Badalamenti. In 1985, Badalamenti was composing the score for David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, as well as serving as the vocal coach for the film’s star, Isabella Rossellini. A key scene in Blue Velvet was intended to feature “Song of the Siren” by This Mortal Coil, but when the rights to the song proved prohibitively expensive, it was suggested that Badalamenti compose a pop song in the same style, with lyrics written by Lynch. Because the song required a vocalist with a haunting, ethereal voice, Badalamenti recommended Julee Cruise, who had sung “like an angel” in a New York theater workshop that Badalamenti had produced. The result of their initial collaboration was “Mysteries of Love”, which figures prominently in Blue Velvet’s closing scenes.

Positive reaction to “Mysteries of Love” led Badalamenti and Lynch to write and produce additional songs for Cruise, most of which were featured in her debut album, Floating Into the Night. The album was released on 12 September 1989 by Warner Bros. Records, and charted on Billboard the following year.

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1		Falling			616
2		Into the Night			260
3		Mysteries of Love			230
4		Rockin' Back Inside My Heart			204
5		The Nightingale			202
6		The World Spins			164
7		Floating			161
8		I Remember			143
9		I Float Alone			119
9		Questions in a World of Blue			119
11		The Swan			103
12		Summer Kisses, Winter Tears			72
13		This Is Our Night			35
14		Movin' in on You			33
15		She Would Die for Love			32

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