It Might Be You Explained
It Might Be You |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Stephen Bishop |
Album: | Tootsie Soundtrack |
B-Side: | "Metamorphosis Blues" (It Might Be You) |
Released: | November 26, 1982 |
Recorded: | 1982 |
Genre: | Soft rock |
Length: | 4:17 |
Label: | Warner Bros. |
Producer: | Dave Grusin |
Prev Title: | Animal House |
Prev Year: | 1978 |
Next Title: | Unfaithfully Yours (One Love) |
Next Year: | 1984 |
"It Might Be You" is a song with music written by Dave Grusin and lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman. It was performed by singer-songwriter Stephen Bishop in the 1982 film Tootsie starring Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange. The song was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1983.
Bishop's recording peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on May 7, 1983 and spent eight weeks in the top 40, becoming his final top 40 song to date. It also held two weeks at No. 1 on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart in April the same year.[1]
Chart performance
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Personnel
Notable cover versions
See also
References
- Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
Notes and References
- Book: Whitburn, Joel . Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Joel Whitburn . 2002 . Record Research . 34.
- Web site: RPM Top Singles. July 2, 2015. June 4, 1983. https://web.archive.org/web/20150702152350/https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.6299&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=8ujpqsn6b6up3tko0kcdcok0c3. July 2, 2015. dead.
- Web site: RPM Contemporary Adult. July 2, 2015. April 30, 1983. https://web.archive.org/web/20150702151348/https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.6290&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=94m60hba642gf0h73k8j9mf8b0. July 2, 2015. dead.
- Web site: The Irish Charts . May 15, 1983 . June 15, 2017.
- Web site: NZ Top 40 Singles Chart . June 12, 1983 . February 28, 2017.
- Web site: Stephen Bishop. February 28, 2017. OfficialCharts.com.
- Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 -
- Book: Whitburn, Joel . Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Joel Whitburn . 2002 . Record Research . 34.
- Web site: Top 100 1983-04-30 . . July 2, 2015 .
- Web site: Top 100 Hits of 1983/Top 100 Songs of 1983. Music Outfitters. July 2, 2015.
- Web site: Exclusive premiere: Julian Wass covers the Tootsie song for The Pretty One. June 2, 2014. Uproxx.com. August 9, 2014.