You Light Up My Life (soundtrack)

You Light Up My Life: Original Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 1977 film of the same name starring Didi Conn and Joe Silver. The soundtrack was composed, arranged and produced by Joseph "Joe" Brooks and released in October 1977 by Arista Records.

For other uses, see You Light Up My Life.
You Light Up My Life:
Original Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by
Joseph Brooks and Kasey Cisyk
ReleasedOctober 1977
Recorded1977
StudioA&R Recording Studios
New York City
GenrePop, Film score
Length26:18
LabelArista
ProducerJoe Brooks
Singles from You Light Up My Life
  1. "You Light Up My Life"
    Released: October 1977

Originally released on LP, cassette and 8-track tape, the soundtrack album peaked at #17 on the Billboard 200 chart in November 1977, was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special.[1]

The title song "You Light Up My Life", performed by Kvitka Cisyk for the film's soundtrack and later recorded by Debby Boone, received the Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song as well as the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. In the film, the song was lip synched by actress Didi Conn.

Cisyk's original soundtrack recording of "You Light Up My Life" was included on the soundtrack album which was rush-released by Arista Records after Boone included her version on her first solo album (also entitled You Light Up My Life) and within less than three weeks, the soundtrack album was certified Gold by the RIAA, making it one of the fastest-breaking records in the label's history at that time.

Boone's single reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a then record-setting 10 consecutive weeks while Cisyk's version of the song was released simultaneously as a single to bolster sales of the soundtrack album. Cisyk's single was credited to "Original Cast", not to Cisyk herself, and although Brooks is listed on the A-side, the "Original Cast" B-side charted on the Billboard Hot 100 and only reached #80. Brooks also released an instrumental version of the song from the soundtrack as a promotional single, but that version failed to chart.[2]

Following the huge success of Boone's hit version of the song (which was not included on the soundtrack album) and with sales of over five million copies of the single, "You Light Up My Life" ultimately became the biggest hit of the 1970s.[3]

Track listing

Side 1:

  1. "You Light Up My Life" (Kasey Cisyk) – 3:35
  2. "The Morning Of My Life" (Kasey Cisyk) – 1:50
  3. "It's A Long Way From Brooklyn" (Kasey Cisyk) – 1:38
  4. "Phone Call" – Joe Brooks (1:47)
  5. "You Light Up My Life" (instrumental) (Joe Brooks) – 3:02

Side 2:

  1. "Rolling The Chords" (Kasey Cisyk) – 2:52
  2. "Do You Have A Piano" (Kasey Cisyk) – 3:32
  3. "Ride To Chris' House" (Joe Brooks) – 0:59
  4. "California Daydreams" (Kasey Cisyk and Joe Brooks) – 3:28
  5. "You Light Up My Life" (Kasey Cisyk) – 3:35

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts
Chart (1977/78) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[4] 94
United States (Billboard 200)[4] 17

Year-end charts
Chart (1978) Rank
Billboard Top Soundtrack Albums 10

Awards and nominations

Brooks received three awards, from four nominations, for the song/album "You Light Up My Life".

Year Award Category Result
1978 Academy Award Best Original Song Won
1978 Golden Globe Award Best Original Song – Motion Picture Won
1978 Grammy Award Song of the Year Won
1978 Grammy Award Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special Nominated

References
  1. (You Light Up My Life: Original Soundtrack album) November 19, 1977.
  2. Billboard Hot 100 (You Light Up My Life: Original Cast) November 26, 1977.
  3. Cohen, Rick (1978-11-20). "Pube Rock: Kiddie Music is Big Business". New York. New York City: 66, 69. Retrieved 2015-11-15.
  4. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 282. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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