You Light Up My Life – Debby Boone

Chart Position: 1

• #3 bestseller for 1978
• #7 on Billboard’s Hot 100 of all time
• Shared Song of the year Grammy award (with Barbra Streisand’s ‘Evergreen: Love theme from A Star is Born’ (1977)
• Adapted from the film You Light Up My Life
• Billboard’s 1977 Record of the Year
• Debby Boone won Best new artist Grammy award
• Won an Academy award for Best song
• Written by Joe Brooks
• Produced by Mike Curb and Joe Brooks
• Recorded in Los Angeles CA
• Originally recorded by Kasey Cisyk (1977)
•  This song spent 10 consecutive weeks at #1
• The instrumental track for this recording was taken from Kasey Cisyk’s original recording
• Debby Boone is the daughter of singer/actor Pat Boone and a descendant of American frontiersman Daniel Boone
• This is Debby Boone’s only #1 single
• Debby Boone is from Los Angeles CA
• Original artist Kasey Cisyk did not receive any payment from Joe Brooks for her recording until she had to file a lawsuit, which she won
• Composer Joe Brooks committed suicide in 2011 while awaiting trial for rape
• Also recorded by Marty Mitchell (1977), Richard Groove Holmes (1977), Dennis Smith (1977), Johnny Mathis (1978), Loleatta Holloway (1978), Bobby Angel (1978), Kamahl (1978), Ray Conniff (1978), Allison Durbin (1978), Magic Organ (1978), Ferrante & Teicher (1978), Rita Remington (1978), Engelbert Humperdinck (1978), Robert Goulet (1978), Kim Hart (1978), Andre Kostelanetz (1978), Sandy O’Neil (1978), Boots Randolph (1978), Brothers Four (1978), Salsoul Strings (1978), Floyd Cramer (1978), Diane Cousins (1979), Des O’Connor (1979), Salena Jones (1980), Cristy Lane (1982), Jimmy Lawton (1985),  Carroll Baker (1985), Lone Cowboys (1985), Paul Nicholas (1986), Roger Whittaker (1989), Incredible Casuals (1996), Kenny Rogers (1996), John Arpin (1998), LeAnn Rimes (1997), Jamie Shaw (1999), Phantasmic (1999), Whitney Houston (2003), Fessler (2003), Mary Griffin (2002), Bianca Ryan (2006), Westlife (2006), Enrique Marcos (2007), Owen Richards (2007), George Vekan Band (2012) and many others