Living Inside Myself Explained

Living Inside Myself
Cover:Living_Inside_Myself_-_Gino_Vannelli.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Gino Vannelli
Album:Nightwalker
B-Side:Stay With Me
Released:March 1981
Recorded:1980
Length:4:23
Label:Arista
Prev Title:The River Must Flow
Prev Year:1979
Next Title:Nightwalker
Next Year:1981

"Living Inside Myself" is a song written and performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Gino Vannelli. It appears on his seventh album, Nightwalker. The song was produced by the three brothers Gino, Joe, and Ross Vannelli.

Premise and composition

In terms of the storyline, the song's narrator finds himself living inside both himself and "this hell" without his former love. The main frame of the song is in B major, while the chorus progresses from A major to D flat.

Chart performance

Released as a single in 1981 in his native Canada, the song went to No. 13 on the RPM Top Singles chart and No. 2 on Canada's Adult Contemporary chart.[1] and was his second top ten hit in the U.S. during the spring and summer of 1981, peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100.[2] "Living Inside Myself" reached No. 5 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in the U.S.

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1981)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[3] 86
Canada RPM Top Singles[4] 13
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary[5] 2
6
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary[6] 5
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles[7] 45
U.S. Cash Box Top 100[8] 9

Year-end charts

Chart (1981)Rank
Canada RPM[9] 85
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[10] 34
U.S. Cash Box[11] 78

Track listing

US 7" single
  • A. "Living Inside Myself" - 4:23
  • B. "Stay with Me" - 4:42

    Notes and References

    1. https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.0339&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.0339.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.0339 RPM Adult Contemporary, May 30, 1981
    2. Web site: Gino Vannelli - Chart history . Billboard . 2014-03-26.
    3. Book: Kent, David . David Kent (historian) . . Australian Chart Book . St Ives, N.S.W. . 1993 . 0-646-11917-6.
    4. Web site: RPM Top 50 Singles - June 20, 1981.
    5. https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.0339&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.0339.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.0339 RPM Adult Contemporary, May 30, 1981
    6. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn . 1993 . Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993 . Record Research . 246.
    7. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 602.
    8. Web site: Cash Box Top 100 Singles, May 30, 1981 . December 3, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150603155251/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/80s_files/19810530.html . June 3, 2015 . dead .
    9. Web site: RPM Top 100 Singles of 1981 - December 26, 1981.
    10. http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1981.htm Billboard Top 100 Songs of 1981
    11. Web site: Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 26, 1981 . December 3, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161022115158/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/80s_files/1981YESP.html . October 22, 2016 . dead .

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