Turn Your Love Around

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

For the unrelated 1986 Dutch single, see Mai Tai (band).
"Turn Your Love Around"
Single by George Benson
from the album The George Benson Collection
B-side"Nature Boy"
ReleasedOctober 1981[1]
GenrePop, R&B, funk, smooth jazz
Length3:50
LabelWarner Bros.
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Jay Graydon
George Benson singles chronology
"Love All the Hurt Away"
(1980)		 "Turn Your Love Around"
(1981)		 "What's On Your Mind"
(1981)

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

Chart performance

"Turn Your Love Around" reached number one on the soul singles charts and number five on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts in early 1982, as well as the top ten on the jazz chart.[13] It is ranked as the 27th biggest hit of 1982. In Canada, the song spent two weeks at number 10.[14]

Cover Versions
  • A version of "Turn Your Love Around" by Tony Di Bart was released in 1996.

Samples

References
  1. "Turn Your Love Around (song by George Benson) • Music VF, US & UK hits charts". Musicvf.com. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  2. "Turn Your Love Around". Songfacts.com. Retrieved 30 October 2009.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 June 2008. Retrieved 25 August 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  5. "Item: 9744 - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  6. "NZ Top 40 Singles Chart | The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Nztop40.co.nz. 6 December 1981. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  7. "SA Charts 1965–March 1989". Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  8. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  9. Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 28.
  10. "Australian Chart Book". Austchartbook.com.au. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  11. "Top 100 Year End Charts: 1981". Cashbox Magazine. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  12. "Top 100 Hits of 1982/Top 100 Songs of 1982". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  13. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 53.
  14. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 25 October 2016.



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