"Being with You" | ||||
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Single by Smokey Robinson | ||||
from the album Being with You | ||||
B-side | "What's in Your Life for Me" | |||
Released | March 9, 1981 | |||
Format | 7" | |||
Recorded | January, 1981 Studio Sound Recorders (North Hollywood, California, United States) |
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Genre | R&B, soul | |||
Label | Motown | |||
Writer(s) | Smokey Robinson | |||
Producer(s) | George Tobin in Association With Mike Piccirillo | |||
Smokey Robinson singles chronology | ||||
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"Being with You" is a 1981 song recorded by American singer Smokey Robinson and is the title track from his Gold-certified album with the same name. The song spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Hot Soul Singles chart from March to early May 1981 and reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100, behind "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes, his highest charting solo hit on the Billboard pop charts.
It hit No. 1 on the U.S. Cash Box Top 100. The track was also a No. 1 hit in the UK Singles Chart in June 1981, becoming Robinson's second UK No. 1 single and his first as a solo artist.