How Do You Talk to an Angel

{{short description|Theme of American television series The Heights}}

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| name = How Do You Talk to an Angel

| cover = The Heights - How Do You Talk to an Angel.jpg

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| type = single

| artist = The Heights

| album = The Heights (Music from the Television Show)

| B-side = "Walkin' Nerve"

| released = September 5, 1992

| recorded = January 20, 1992

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| genre = Pop{{cite web|first= Tom |last= Breihan |title= The Number Ones: The Heights’ “How Do You Talk To An Angel|website= Stereogum |date= January 26, 2022|url= https://www.stereogum.com/2173847/the-number-ones-the-heights-how-do-you-talk-to-an-angel/columns/the-number-ones/|quote='How Do You Talk To An Angel' almost plays like a parody of circa-1992 pop balladry.|access-date= November 28, 2024}}

| length = 3:48

| label = Capitol

| writer = {{hlist|Barry Coffing|Steve Tyrell|Stephanie Tyrell}}

| producer = Steve Tyrell

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"How Do You Talk to an Angel" is a song written by Steve Tyrell, Barry Coffing, and Stephanie Tyrell. It was the theme for the American TV series The Heights. The ballad was released as a single with Jamie Walters as the lead singer, and it reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 on November 14, 1992, but the series was canceled exactly one week after the song fell from its number-one position.{{cite book|last=Bronson|first=Fred |title=The Billboard Book Of Number 1 Hits|publisher=Billboard Books|year=2003|edition=5|pages=812|isbn=0-8230-7677-6}} Vocalists on the single included Shawn David Thompson, Cheryl Pollak, and Charlotte Ross, as well as Zachary Throne from the Las Vegas rock band Sin City Sinners.

In 1993, the song was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics".{{Cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1993/outstanding-original-music-and-lyrics|title=Nominees/Winners|website=Television Academy|access-date=March 5, 2019}} The Emmy went to the song "Sorry I Asked" by Kander and Ebb from Liza Minnelli Live from Radio City Music Hall. No follow-up singles under The Heights name were ever commercially released. Promo CDs were issued to radio for a follow-up "I'm Still On Your Side", but there was no commercial issue for this track as a single.

Walters, the lead singer on the single and the lead actor on the show, later had a number-16 Hot 100 hit with his single "Hold On" in 1994.[{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=jamie walters|chart=all}} Hold On – Jamie Walters | Billboard.com] It was his only subsequent chart appearance.