It Might Be You
| "It Might Be You" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Side A of the US single | ||||
| Single by Stephen Bishop | ||||
| from the album Tootsie Soundtrack | ||||
| B-side | "Metamorphosis Blues" (It Might Be You) | |||
| Released | November 26, 1982 | |||
| Recorded | 1982 | |||
| Genre | Soft rock | |||
| Length | 4:17 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Dave Grusin | |||
| Stephen Bishop singles chronology | ||||
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| Music video | ||||
| Listen to "It Might Be You" (official music video) on YouTube | ||||
"It Might Be You" is a song with music written by Dave Grusin and lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman. It was performed by singer-songwriter Stephen Bishop in the 1982 film Tootsie starring Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange. The song was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1983.
Bishop's recording peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on May 7, 1983 and spent eight weeks in the top 40, becoming his final top 40 song to date. It also held two weeks at No. 1 on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart in April the same year.[1]
Chart performance
[edit]Weekly charts
[edit]| Chart (1983) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Canadian RPM Top Singles[2] | 16 |
| Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary[3] | 1 |
| Ireland[4] | 19 |
| New Zealand[5] | 29 |
| UK Singles Chart[6] | 99 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[7] | 25 |
| U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary[8] | 1 |
| U.S. Cashbox Top 100[9] | 19 |
Year-end charts
[edit]| Chart (1983) | Rank |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[10] | 95 |
Personnel
[edit]- Stephen Bishop - vocals
- Dave Grusin – electric piano, acoustic piano
- George Doering, Paul Jackson Jr., Mitch Holder - guitar
- Abraham Laboriel - bass
- Ian Underwood - synthesizer
- Carlos Vega - drums
- Steve Foreman - percussion
- Becky Porter, Billy Phedford, Marva Holcolm, Paulette Brown - backing vocals
Notable cover versions
[edit]- In 1991, Patti Austin included a cover on her Live album.
- In 1995, Roberta Flack recorded the song for use in the Forest Whitaker-directed film Waiting to Exhale. The song appears in the film, but not on the film's soundtrack album and appearing instead on her own album, Roberta.
- Filipino singer Erik Santos also covered the song as a duet with Marinel Santos in 2003 and it was used as the title theme song of the Philippine drama series, It Might Be You.
- In 2013, the song appeared over the closing credits of the film The Pretty One, covered by K A R Y Y N and Julian Wass.[11] The Pretty One shares with Tootsie the theme of a person assuming a different identity.
- In October 2015, Filipino singer and actor Michael Pangilinan covered the song and it was used as the theme song of the film Everyday I Love You.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 34.
- ^ "RPM Top Singles". June 4, 1983. Archived from the original on July 2, 2015. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
- ^ "RPM Contemporary Adult". April 30, 1983. Archived from the original on July 2, 2015. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
- ^ "The Irish Charts". May 15, 1983. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- ^ "NZ Top 40 Singles Chart". June 12, 1983. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
- ^ "Stephen Bishop". OfficialCharts.com. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
- ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 34.
- ^ "Top 100 1983-04-30". Cashbox Magazine. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
- ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1983/Top 100 Songs of 1983". Music Outfitters. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
- ^ "Exclusive premiere: Julian Wass covers the Tootsie song for The Pretty One". Uproxx.com. June 2, 2014. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
- Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
