Turn Your Love Around Explained

Turn Your Love Around
Cover:Turn_Your_Love_Around.jpg
Type:single
Artist:George Benson
Album:The George Benson Collection
B-Side:Nature Boy
Released:October 1981[1]
Genre:
Length:3:50
Label:Warner Bros.
Producer:Jay Graydon
Prev Title:Love All the Hurt Away
Prev Year:1981
Next Title:Never Give Up on a Good Thing
Next Year:1981

"Turn Your Love Around" is a pop/R&B single by George Benson.

Song writers and awards

The song was written by Grammy winners Bill Champlin of Chicago, Steve Lukather of Toto and producer and guitarist Jay Graydon to help fill out Benson's 1981 greatest hits album, The George Benson Collection. The song won a Best R&B Song Grammy Award at the 25th Grammy Awards in 1983 for Champlin, Graydon, and Lukather as its co-writers.

Background

The inspiration for the song came to Graydon in the bathroom. He explained to Songfacts, "'Turn Your Love Around' was a gift, and it's the gift that keeps giving. I was in the bathroom when I came up with the melody, and I was sitting down, if you get my drift. Well, I got off the can as fast as I could and got to a cassette machine so I wouldn't forget it. George Benson was coming in town Tuesday, so I had four days to come up with a song for The George Benson Collection. And I was gettin' nothing. And then bang! I just came up with this melody for the chorus when I was in the bathroom."[2]

The song was one of the first pop hits to use a Linn LM-1 drum machine, programmed by the session drummer Jeff Porcaro.[3]

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1981–1982)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[4] 21
Canada Top Singles 10
Canada Adult Contemporary[5] 5
New Zealand[6] 13
South Africa (Springbok)[7] 14
UK Singles Chart29
US Billboard Hot 100[8] 5
US Billboard Adult Contemporary[9] 9
US Billboard R&B Singles[10] 1
US Cash Box Top 100 5

Year-end charts

Chart (1981)Rank
Australia [11] 142
US Cash Box [12] 70

"Turn Your Love Around" reached number one on the soul singles chart and number five on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in early 1982, as well as the top ten on the jazz chart.[14] It was ranked as the 27th biggest hit of 1982. In Canada, the song spent two weeks at number 10.[15]

Tony Di Bart version

Turn Your Love Around
Type:single
Artist:Tony Di Bart
Album:Falling for You
Released:March 1, 1996
Recorded:1995
Genre:Eurodance
Length:3:57
Label:Cleveland City Blues
Producer:The Joy Brothers
Prev Title:Why Did Ya
Prev Year:1995
Next Title:We Got the Love
Next Year:1997

In 1995 Tony Di Bart recorded a cover version of Turn Your Love Around which appeared on the album Falling for You. Compared to the original, this version is Eurodance-heavy . In addition to the studio album, it is also included on the compilations Dance Now! 14.[16]

Charts

Chart (1996)Peak
position
UK Singles (OCC)[17] 66
Netherlands[18] 44
Belgium[19] 40

Samples

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Turn Your Love Around (song by George Benson) • Music VF, US & UK hits charts . Musicvf.com . 25 October 2016.
  2. Web site: Turn Your Love Around . Songfacts.com . 30 October 2009.
  3. Web site: Stevelukather.net - Sessions . 25 August 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080605001641/http://www.stevelukather.net/Session.aspx?id=86 . 5 June 2008 .
  4. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian)

    . Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book. St Ives, NSW. 1993. 0-646-11917-6 .

  5. Web site: Item: 9744 - Library and Archives Canada . Bac-lac.gc.ca . 25 October 2016.
  6. Web site: NZ Top 40 Singles Chart | The Official New Zealand Music Chart . Nztop40.co.nz . 6 December 1981 . 25 October 2016.
  7. Web site: SA Charts 1965–March 1989. 1 September 2018.
  8. Book: Whitburn, Joel. 1991. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990. Record Research . 0-89820-089-X.
  9. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn

    . Joel Whitburn . 1993 . Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993 . Record Research . 28.

  10. George Benson: US R&B . . January 20, 2024.
  11. Web site: Australian Chart Book . Austchartbook.com.au . 25 October 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305064644/http://www.austchartbook.com.au/ . 5 March 2016 .
  12. Web site: Top 100 Year End Charts: 1981 . . 19 July 2016 .
  13. Web site: Top 100 Hits of 1982/Top 100 Songs of 1982 . Musicoutfitters.com . 25 October 2016.
  14. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn

    . Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 53.

  15. Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . 25 October 2016.
  16. Web site: Turn Your Love Around by Tony Di Bart - Track Info. AllMusic.
  17. Web site: Official Charts > Tony Di Bart. The Official UK Charts Company. January 20, 2024.
  18. Web site: Tony Di Bart - Turn Your Love Around. dutchcharts.nl.
  19. Web site: Tony Di Bart - Turn Your Love Around. ultratop.be.