Songfacts®:

• Michael Bolton was married when he released this song, and not to a Gina - his wife's name was Maureen. But the name Gina sings really well, making it a good fit for a song about being over-the-moon for girl. The song is part of his breakthrough album The Hunger, which includes his hit cover of "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay."
• Bolton wrote this song with two other writers: Bob Halligan Jr. and Keith Diamond. In a Songfacts interview with Halligan, he explained how it happened:
  
  "It's fairly late on a Sunday night. It's Michael Bolton, Keith Diamond and myself. I've got my non-reverse Firebird electric guitar through a Rockman, and I keep playing this riff.
  
  When you're collaborating with other people and you have an idea, you just kind of insinuate it and keep repeating it with the hope that somebody's going to look up from what they're doing and say, 'Hey, that's kind of cool.' And that's what happened.
  
  So they got excited about the riff, and that's kind of why I was there - Bob can give us some electric guitar riffage. We all worked off of that for the A part of the intro and then the A part of the verse, just the three of us back and forth.
  
  Who came up with the name Gina? I don't know if that was Michael, but I know it wasn't me. I might have had the chords for it. But we just kept hacking away till God knows what time in the morning, and it was a pretty satisfying experience."
• Michael Bolton and Bob Halligan Jr. both started off in the world of hard rock. Bolton fronted a band called Blackjack and Halligan wrote songs for the likes of Kix and Helix. Bolton is a fan of a Judas Priest song Halligan wrote called "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll," so he asked to write with him. "We wrote nine songs together over a period of four years and seven of the nine were recorded, six of those seven on major records," Halligan said. "So it was a really great connection and was the pivot from me being exclusively rock guy to the broader elements of music, including more mainstream pop."