Can We Start Again? Hi My Im Joseph
| "You Light Upwards My Life" | |
|---|---|
 Song side of the US single | |
| Unmarried by Kasey Cisyk (credited to Original Bandage) | |
| from the album You Light Up My Life: Original Soundtrack | |
| A-side |
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| Released | Baronial 16, 1977 (Charted the week of September 3) |
| Recorded | 1977 |
| Genre | Pop |
| Length | 3:29 |
| Label | Arista |
| Songwriter(s) | Joe Brooks[1] |
| Producer(s) | Joe Brooks |
"You Light Up My Life" is a carol written by Joseph Brooks, and originally recorded by Kasey Cisyk for the soundtrack album to the 1977 motion-picture show of the aforementioned title.[1] The song was lip synced in the flick by its lead actress, Didi Conn. The best-known cover version of the song is a cover past Debby Boone, the daughter of singer Pat Boone. It held the No. 1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for ten sequent weeks in 1977 and topped Record World magazine'south Meridian 100 Singles Chart for a record xiii weeks.[2]
Original film version [edit]
Cisyk's original soundtrack recording was included on the movie'south soundtrack album, and later released as a single to bolster sales of the soundtrack album later on Debby Boone included her version on her first solo album (also titled You Light Up My Life). Although the soundtrack album was certified Gold, peaking at No. 17 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, it never included Boone'due south hit single version of the vocal.
Cisyk'due south single was credited to "Original Bandage", not to Cisyk herself, and fifty-fifty though Brooks is listed on the A-side of the single, the "Original Cast" B-side charted on the Billboard Hot 100 and just reached No. 80. Brooks besides released an instrumental version of the song from the soundtrack equally a promotional single, simply that version failed to chart.
Following the success of Boone's version, the song earned Brooks a Grammy Award for Song of the Year, an Academy Accolade for All-time Original Vocal, a Gilt World Award for All-time Original Song and an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) laurels.[one]
Track listing [edit]
- 7" vinyl single
- "You Light Up My Life" (Instrumental) — 3:02
- "Y'all Calorie-free Upwardly My Life" (Original Bandage) — 3:29
Chart performance (Original Bandage single) [edit]
The Joseph Brooks controversies [edit]
In a 2013 biographical essay about Cisyk,[three] Cisyk's second husband, Ed Rakowicz (who worked as a sound engineer, but non for this vocal), wrote that songwriter Brooks was initially pleased with Cisyk's recording of the song with orchestra (and her version appeared in the movie and soundtrack) merely "tried to evade payment by faux promises and by asking her to be an incidental thespian in his film, implying huge rewards yet to come up..."[3] Rackowicz claimed that Brooks made improper advances toward Cisyk, that after existence rebuffed, he refused to speak directly to her once again, and that he continued to evade payments to her while commissioning another recording with Debby Boone. Co-ordinate to Rackowicz, "Besides wanting Boone to copy Kacey'southward [sic][4] iconic striking reading of his songs, Brooks needed to cover up Kacey'southward vocal leakage in the microphones in the piano recorded at the original demo session on which was overdubbed the orchestral track used in the picture. Brooks didn't want to pay to re-record the piano and orchestra once again."[3] In a 2003 interview with Entertainment Weekly Mag, Boone admitted, "I had no freedom whatsoever. Joe told me exactly how to sing it and imitate every inflection from the original recording."[5] Cisyk subsequently retained a lawyer and sued Brooks for the fees she had earned for her work on the record and for credit on the soundtrack, which she later received.[iii]
Debby Boone version [edit]
| "You Light Up My Life" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 German language release cover | ||||
| Single by Debby Boone | ||||
| from the anthology You lot Calorie-free Up My Life | ||||
| B-side |
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| Released | August sixteen, 1977 | |||
| Recorded | April 1977 | |||
| Genre | Soft rock[vi] | |||
| Length | three:35 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros.-Curb | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Joe Brooks[1] | |||
| Producer(southward) | Joe Brooks | |||
| Debby Boone singles chronology | ||||
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| Culling image | ||||
 Side A of the US single | ||||
In 1977, Debby Boone, Pat Boone'southward daughter, recorded the song under the guidance of Adjourn Records executive Mike Curb[7] and songwriter Joseph Brooks.[v] Boone recorded her vocals over a pre-existing instrumental rail that Brooks already had adult for the film'due south soundtrack.[seven] The song was released as both a Warner-Curb Records unmarried and as the title runway to her first solo album, You lot Light Up My Life, which she released on Warner Bros. Records, Adjourn Records' parent label.
Cash Box said that "Ms. Boone builds it to a powerful emotional peak as a massive string department lends support."[8]
The single was an enormous success. It became the biggest single of the 1970s in the United States,[9] setting a new Billboard Hot 100 record for most weeks spent at Number One. Elvis Presley'southward double-sided hit "Don't Be Fell/ Hound Dog," then recognized equally the longest-running Number One vocal of the rock era, spent eleven weeks atop the Billboard Best Sellers chart in 1956, earlier the 1958 debut of the Hot 100. The previous Hot 100 record was held by Bobby Darin's "Mack the Pocketknife", Percy Faith's recording of "Theme from A Summer Place" (1960) and The Beatles's "Hey Jude" (1968), all 3 of which remained at No. 1 for nine weeks.[10] The ten-week record was matched in 1982 past Olivia Newton-John'southward "Physical,"[xi] just was not surpassed until a 1991 change in chart methodology allowed songs to accomplish longer reigns at No. one. In 1992, "End of the Route," by Boyz II Men, would prepare the new record with 13 weeks.[12]
Besting her chart performance in Billboard, Boone's "You Light Up My Life" single topped Record Earth'due south Acme 100 Singles Nautical chart for an unbroken record of 13 weeks.[ii] On Billboard'southward chart, Boone was unseated from No. 1 past the Bee Gees, with "How Deep Is Your Love," the outset of three No. 1 singles from the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack. On Record World'south nautical chart, Boone kept the Bee Gees out of the number-one spot. In Cash Box Magazine, "You Light Upward My Life" managed only an eight-week stay at the tiptop of the chart, before being dethroned by Crystal Gayle's "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". Its least-lengthy run was on the Radio and Records chart, with half-dozen weeks at No. 1 before relinquishing the spot to the Bee Gees;[13] it had knocked Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better" out of the top spot afterward only one calendar week.
The single, which was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), too hit No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart and reached No. 4 on the Country chart. The single peaked at No. 48 in the United kingdom Singles Chart.[14] Boone's hit unmarried led to her winning the 1978 Grammy Laurels for All-time New Artist, with additional Grammy nominations for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female and Record of the Year. Boone also won the 1977 American Music Award for Favorite Pop Single.
Decades afterward its release, the Debby Boone version is nevertheless considered one of the summit 10 Billboard Hot 100 songs of all time. In 2008, it was ranked at No. 7 on Billboard's "Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs" list (August 1958 - July 2008).[7] An updated version of the all-time listing in 2013 ranked the song at No. 9.[15]
Although it was written past Brooks as a love song, the devout Boone interpreted it every bit inspirational and proclaimed that it was instead God who "lit up her life." This fact was later on alluded to when the song appeared in The Simpsons episode "I Married Marge," Season 3, Episode 12.
Track list [edit]
- 7" vinyl single
- "You Calorie-free Up My Life"* – 3:35
- "Hasta Mañana"** – 3:12
* Note: Produced and arranged by Joe Brooks.
** Note: Produced by Mike Adjourn and arranged by Al Capps.
Chart functioning (Debby Boone unmarried) [edit]
LeAnn Rimes version [edit]
| "Y'all Low-cal Up My Life" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Single by LeAnn Rimes | ||||
| from the album You Lite Up My Life: Inspirational Songs | ||||
| B-side | "I Believe" | |||
| Released | Baronial 26, 1997 | |||
| Recorded | 1996 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:37 | |||
| Label | Curb | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Joe Brooks[1] | |||
| Producer(southward) | Mike Curb Chuck Howard Wilbur C. Rimes | |||
| LeAnn Rimes singles chronology | ||||
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LeAnn Rimes released her own version of "You Lite Upwardly My Life" as a single in 1997, xx years subsequently Boone'due south version was released, and on the same record label, the Warner Bros. Records label's Curb Records label. Her version fared modestly past comparing to the original at radio (No. 34 Pop, No. 48 Country). Still, her single was certified gilt and was the title runway to her No. one popular and country album, You Light Upwards My Life: Inspirational Songs.
Track listing [edit]
- United states CD single [22]
- "You Low-cal Up My Life"* – three:37
- "I Believe"** – 2:22
* Notation: Produced by Wilbur C. Rimes, Chuck Howard and Mike Adjourn.[23]
** Note: Produced past Wilbur C. Rimes.[23]
Chart performance (LeAnn Rimes unmarried) [edit]
| Nautical chart (1997) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[24] | 57 |
| Us Billboard Hot 100[25] | 34 |
| US Hot State Songs (Billboard)[26] | 48 |
Other versions [edit]
Many artists accept covered "Yous Light Up My Life" since 1977.
- Perry Como performed it on Bob Hope's TV special in 1977 (so recorded for CD in 2000).
- Johnny Mathis recorded the vocal and named his 1978 album afterwards the song.
- Engelbert Humperdinck besides recorded "You Light Up My Life" in 1978, including information technology on his album "Last of the Romantics". The song has also been recorded by Loleatta Holloway, Jean Carn, Kenny Rogers, Angeline Quinto, José Carreras, Robert Goulet, and Samantha Cole.[27]
- Valeria Lynch recorded the vocal covered "Tú me haces feliz" for her 1979 album Yo soy tu canción....
- Japanese singer Yuki Saito recorded it (in English) for her 1994 anthology Moi.
- Whitney Houston recorded the song for her 2002 album But Whitney....
- The Irish pop band Westlife recorded a embrace of the vocal and made information technology to their The Beloved Album album in 2006 which went straight to No. 1 in UK Albums Chart and performed it live later on. The song charted on UK Singles Chart without existence properly released equally a unmarried.
| Charts (2006) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Great britain Singles (Official Charts Company) | 171 |
- A French rendering entitled "Tu remplis ma vie" was recorded past Anne Renée (fr) in 1977.
- America's Got Talent season 1 winner Bianca Ryan covered the song for her 2006 debut anthology.
- Patti Smith performed the song on the ABC tv set program Kids Are People Also, accompanied past Brooks on piano.[28]
In other media [edit]
"You Light Up My Life" became a running joke in an episode of Girlfriends (titled "Can't Stan Ya!"). Maya and Stan (who had been seeing each other) share a kiss; she feels guilty later on and decides to intermission things off with him to focus on her marriage. While attempting to do this, Stan serenades her with the vocal and doesn't permit Maya to break her news to him. Lynn offers to tell Stan on Maya's behalf (in exchange for Maya to talk her mother in reducing Lynn's hire on the garage); she then sings the vocal to Maya every bit a form of blackmail. At the episode's end, Maya arrives home where Darnell - and Stan - are now playing a video game (a hurt and angry Stan has decided to "befriend" Darnell to go back at Maya). Stan starts to hum the song during the game, prompting Darnell to bring together him. Darnell and so exclaims "You lot Light Upward My Life! Maya, y'all think that? That used to be your mama's jam back in the day!"
See besides [edit]
- List of RPM number-one singles of 1977
- List of Hot 100 number-ane singles of 1977 (U.S.)
- Listing of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1977 (U.S.)
- List of Billboard Hot 100 chart achievements and milestones
- List of 1970s 1-hit wonders in the United States
References [edit]
- ^ a b c d e f Roberts, David (2006). British Striking Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 136. ISBN1-904994-10-5.
- ^ a b "Summit 100 Singles Chart for 1/seven/1978" (PDF). Tape World. 35 #1591: 29. Jan 7, 1978.
- ^ a b c d Kvitka's Biography by Ed Rakowicz, 2013 Accessed January 14, 2014.
- ^ Rakowicz's biography consistently spells the Americanized version of his wife'southward name as "Kacey" rather than "Kasey."
- ^ a b Brown, Scott (21 February 2003). "The Light Stuff". Entertainment Weekly. pp. 76–78.
- ^ "VH1's xl Nigh Softsational Soft-Rock Songs". Stereogum. SpinMedia. May 31, 2007. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
- ^ a b c "The Billboard Hot 100 Best Elevation Songs (x-01)". Billboard. July 2008. Archived from the original on 1 October 2008. Retrieved thirteen November 2015.
- ^ "CashBox Singles Reviews" (PDF). Greenbacks Box. August 27, 1977. p. thirty. Retrieved 2021-12-26 .
- ^ "Readers' Poll: The 10 Worst Songs of the 1970s: four – Debby Boone – 'Yous Light Upward My Life'". Rolling Stone. New York Metropolis. 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-06-24. Retrieved 2015-eleven-xv .
- ^ Bronson, Fred (ane Oct 2003). The Billboard Volume of Number One Hits (5th ed.). New York: Billboard Books. p. 939. ISBN978-0823076772.
- ^ Bronson, p. 550.
- ^ Bronson, pp. 938-939.
- ^ "Records & Radio" (PDF). Worldradiohistory.com. 1977-11-25. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
- ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 136. ISBN1-904994-10-v.
- ^ Bronson, Fred (2 August 2013). "Hot 100 55th Anniversary: The All-Time Elevation 100 Songs". Billboard . Retrieved 9 August 2013.
- ^ "Debby Boone Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
- ^ Steffen Hung. "Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)". Australian-charts.com . Retrieved 2016-x-13 .
- ^ "Paradigm : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca . Retrieved 2016-x-13 .
- ^ "Peak xx Striking Singles of 1978". Retrieved ii September 2018.
- ^ "Top fifty Adult Contemporary Hits of 1978 - 45cat". 45cat.com . Retrieved 24 April 2021.
- ^ "Hot 100 turns 60". Billboard . Retrieved August half dozen, 2018.
- ^ "You lot Calorie-free Up My Life / I Believe: Leann Rimes: Music". Retrieved 2011-10-09 .
- ^ a b Y'all Light Upwardly My Life / I Believe (CD single). LeAnn Rimes. Curb Records. 1997. D2-73027.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ "Top RPM Land Tracks: Effect 3346." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. October 6, 1997. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
- ^ "LeAnn Rimes Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
- ^ "LeAnn Rimes Nautical chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
- ^ "Cover versions of Y'all Light Up My Life by Debby Boone". SecondHandSongs.com . Retrieved 2016-10-13 .
- ^ "Video of the Day: Patti Smith Sings "You Light Up My Life" to Kids". Retrieved 24 February 2014.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Light_Up_My_Life_(song)
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