| She Makes My Day | |
| Cover: | Robert Palmer She Makes My Day 1988 Single Cover.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Robert Palmer |
| Album: | Heavy Nova |
| B-Side: | Disturbing Behaviour |
| Released: | 3 October 1988[1] |
| Recorded: | 1987 |
| Length: | 4:21 |
| Label: | EMI |
| Producer: | Robert Palmer |
| Prev Title: | Early in the Morning |
| Prev Year: | 1988 |
| Next Title: | Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin' |
| Next Year: | 1989 |
"She Makes My Day" is a song by English singer-songwriter Robert Palmer, which was released in 1988 as the third single from his ninth studio album Heavy Nova.[2] The song was written and produced by Palmer.[3] "She Makes My Day" reached No. 6 in both the UK and Ireland.[4] [5]
In Michael Luckman's book Alien Rock: The Rock 'n' Roll Extraterrestrial Connection, Palmer said of writing the track, "I didn't give much thought to it at all. It was like automatic writing."[6]
"She Makes My Day" was released by EMI on 7" vinyl in the UK, Europe, Australia and the US. A 12" vinyl version was released in the UK and Spain, while a CD edition was also issued in the UK and Japan.[7] All editions featured the B-side "Disturbing Behaviour", except the US and Japanese releases. The US release featured "Casting a Spell" as the B-side, and "Change His Ways" for the Japanese release. All three B-sides appeared on Heavy Nova.[2]
A music video was filmed to promote the single. It received medium rotation on MTV.[8]
Upon release, Billboard listed the song as a recommended single under the "Pop" category and described it as a "lilting, easy-paced rock ballad".[9] James Masterton, in his 2015 book The Top 40 Annual 1988, described the song as a "smouldering Sinatra-esque slow jazz single".[10] In a retrospective review of Heavy Nova, Terry Staunton of Record Collector believed the song was an "intricately layered ballad" and "arguably the sweetest few minutes in his entire catalogue".[11]