You Light Up My Life (song)
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Single by Kasey Cisyk (credited to Original Cast) |
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| from the album You Light Up My Life: Original Soundtrack | |
| B-side | "You Light Up My Life" (Original Cast) |
| Released | October 1977 |
| Format | 7" single |
| Recorded | 1977 |
| Genre | Pop |
| Length | 3:29 |
| Label | Arista |
| Writer(s) | Joe Brooks |
| Producer(s) | Joe Brooks |
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| Single by Debby Boone | ||||
| from the album You Light Up My Life | ||||
| B-side | "Hasta Mañana" | |||
| Released | August 16, 1977 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Recorded | 1977 | |||
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| Length | 3:35 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros.-Curb | |||
| Writer(s) | Joe Brooks | |||
| Producer(s) | Joe Brooks | |||
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| Single by LeAnn Rimes | ||||
| from the album You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs | ||||
| B-side | "I Believe" | |||
| Released | August 26, 1997 | |||
| Format | CD single | |||
| Recorded | 1996 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:37 | |||
| Label | Curb | |||
| Writer(s) | Joe Brooks | |||
| Producer(s) |
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"You Light Up My Life" is a ballad written by Joseph "Joe" Brooks, and originally recorded by Kasey Cisyk for the soundtrack album to the 1977 film of the same name. The song was lip synched in the film by its lead actress, Didi Conn. The best-known version of the song is a cover by Debby Boone, the daughter of singer Pat Boone, which held the #1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for ten consecutive weeks in 1977, setting a new record for that time.
Cisyk's original soundtrack recording was included on the film's soundtrack album, and later released as a single to bolster sales of the soundtrack album after Debby Boone included her version on her first solo album (also entitled You Light Up My Life). Although the soundtrack album was certified Gold, peaking at #17 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, it never included Boone's hit single version of the song.
Cisyk's single was credited to "Original Cast", not to Cisyk herself, and even though Brooks is listed on the A-side of the single, the "Original Cast" B-side charted on the Billboard Hot 100 and only reached #80. Brooks also released an instrumental version of the song from the soundtrack as a promotional single, but 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 Award for Best Original Song, a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) award.
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