Being with You (song) explained
| Being with You |
| Cover: | Being With You - Smokey Robinson.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Smokey Robinson |
| Album: | Being with You |
| B-Side: | What's in Your Life for Me |
| Released: | January 23, 1981[1] |
| Recorded: | January 1981 |
| Studio: | Studio Sound Recorders
(North Hollywood, California, United States) |
| Genre: |
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| Length: | 4:06 |
| Label: | Motown |
| Producer: | George Tobin, Mike Piccirillo |
| Prev Title: | Let Me Be the Clock |
| Prev Year: | 1980 |
| Next Title: | You Are Forever |
| Next Year: | 1981 |
"Being with You" is a 1981 song recorded by American singer Smokey Robinson. 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,[4] behind "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes, his highest charting solo hit on the Billboard pop charts. It also reached number one in the UK Singles Chart.
Background
"Being with You" is the title track from Robinson's Gold-certified album with the same name. The song reached No. 1 on the US Cash Box Top 100.[5] 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.[6] [7]
Soon after Robinson's English single was released, Motown's subsidiary label Tamla released a Spanish version of the song under the title of "Aqui Con Tigo" (Tamla T 54325F), backed with a bilingual English/Spanish version.
Chart performance
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Notes and References
- Web site: Smokey Robinson - Being with You .
- Web site: Eric . Harvey . The Quiet Storm . . May 19, 2012. October 11, 2022.
- Book: Matos, Michaelangelo. Can’t Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year. Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles: August 12, 1984. 8 December 2020. Hachette Books. 978-0-306-90337-3. 237.
- Book: Whitburn, Joel . Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 497.
- Web site: Cash Box Top 100 Singles, May 23, 1981 . March 11, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150603154927/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/80s_files/19810523.html . June 3, 2015 . dead .
- Book: Roberts, David . 2006 . British Hit Singles & Albums. 19th . Guinness World Records Limited . London . 1-904994-10-5 . 394–5.
- Book: Rice, Jo . 1982 . The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits . 1st . Guinness Superlatives Ltd . Enfield, Middlesex . 214–5 . 0-85112-250-7.
- Web site: National Top 100 Singles for 1981 . . 393 . 7 . . January 4, 1982 . January 11, 2022 .
- Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . October 17, 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160314090101/https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.0360&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=i7hambfnrg4eo3cgtt3tq18v83 . March 14, 2016 .
- Web site: Song artist 452 - Smokey Robinson . Tsort.info . October 8, 2007 . October 17, 2016.
- Web site: South African Rock Lists Website - SA Charts 1969 - 1989 Songs (A-B).
- Web site: Being with You – Smokey Robinson. Official Charts Company. December 4, 2023.
- Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . October 17, 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160410172435/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php . April 10, 2016 .
- Web site: Top Selling Singles of 1981 | The Official New Zealand Music Chart . Nztop40.co.nz . December 31, 1981 . October 17, 2016.
- . Chart File Top 100 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130404163119/http://scans.chartarchive.org/UK/1981/UK%20Charts%201981%20-%20Singles%20and%20albums.pdf . dead . April 4, 2013 . . London . Spotlight Publications . 27 . December 26, 1981 . June 13, 2016 .
- Web site: Top 100 Hits of 1981/Top 100 Songs of 1981 . Musicoutfitters.com . October 17, 2016.
