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You Light Up My Life (song)

Index You Light Up My Life (song)

"You Light Up My Life" is a ballad written by Joseph "Joe" Brooks, and originally recorded by Kasey Cisyk for the soundtrack album to the 1977 film of the same name. [1]

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Academy Award for Best Original Song

The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Adult Contemporary (chart)

The Adult Contemporary chart is published weekly by Billboard magazine and lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary radio stations in the United States.

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Al Capps

Allan Alfonzo (Al) Capps (Arkansas, 26 April 1939 - Michigan, 7 June 2018) is an American record producer, arranger, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist.

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America's Got Talent (season 1)

The first season of America's Got Talent premiered on June 21, 2006 and concluded on August 17, 2006.

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American Music Award

The American Music Awards (AMAs) is an annual American music awards show, created by Dick Clark in 1973 for ABC when the network's contract to air the Grammy Awards expired.

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American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers

The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that protects its members' musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating them accordingly.

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Angeline Quinto

Angeline Quinto (born November 26, 1989) is a Filipino singer, actress, and winner of Star Power: Sharon's Search For The Next Female Pop Superstar in 2011.

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Anne Renée

Anne Renée (born: Manon Kirouac; August 24, 1950) is a Canadian pop singer who rose to fame in Quebec in the 1970s.

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Arista Records

Arista Records, Inc. was a major American record label.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Bee Gees

The Bee Gees --> were a pop music group formed in 1958.

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Bianca Ryan

Bianca Taylor Ryan (born September 1, 1994) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actress from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Boyz II Men

Boyz II Men is an American R&B vocal group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, best known for emotional ballads and a cappella harmonies.

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CD single

A CD single (sometimes abbreviated to CDS) is a music single in the form of a compact disc.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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Curb Records

Curb Records (also known as Asylum-Curb and formerly known as MCG Curb) is an independent record label started by Mike Curb originally as Sidewalk Records in 1963.

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Debby Boone

Deborah Anne "Debby" Boone (born September 22, 1956), is an American singer, author, and actress.

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Didi Conn

Edith "Didi" Conn (née Bernstein; July 13, 1951) is an American film, stage and television actress best known for her work as Frenchy in Grease and Denise in the TV series Benson.

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Don't Be Cruel

"Don't Be Cruel" is a song recorded by Elvis Presley and written by Otis Blackwell in 1956.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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End of the Road (Boyz II Men song)

"End of the Road" is a single recorded by American R&B group Boyz II Men for the ''Boomerang'' soundtrack.

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Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)

Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey; 2 May 1936) is an English pop singer.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Girlfriends (2000 TV series)

Girlfriends is an American sitcom that premiered on September 11, 2000, on UPN and aired on UPN's successor network, The CW, before being cancelled in 2008.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song

The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song was awarded for the first time in 1962 and has been awarded annually since 1965 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance was a Grammy Award recognizing superior vocal performance by a female in the pop category, the first of which was presented in 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best New Artist

The Grammy Award for Best New Artist has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Record of the Year

The Grammy Award for Record of the Year is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to sales or chart position." The Record of the Year award is one of the four most prestigious categories at the awards (alongside Best New Artist, Song of the Year and Album of the Year) presented annually since the 1st Grammy Awards in 1959.

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Grammy Award for Song of the Year

The Grammy Award for Song of the Year is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.

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Hasta Mañana

"Hasta Mañana" (Spanish for "Until tomorrow"), which originally was titled "Who's Gonna Love You?", is the fourth track on Swedish pop group ABBA's second studio album, Waterloo.

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Hey Jude

"Hey Jude" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney.

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Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States.

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Hound Dog (song)

"Hound Dog" is a twelve-bar blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

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How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees song)

"How Deep Is Your Love" is a pop ballad written and recorded by the Bee Gees in 1977 and released as a single in September of that year.

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How Do I Live

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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I Believe (Frankie Laine song)

"I Believe" is a popular song written by Ervin Drake, Irvin Graham, Jimmy Shirl and Al Stillman in 1953.

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I Married Marge

"I Married Marge" is the twelfth episode of The Simpsons' third season.

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Irish people

The Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are a nation and ethnic group native to the island of Ireland, who share a common Irish ancestry, identity and culture.

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Jean Carn

Jean Carn, also spelled Jean Carne (born Sarah Jean Perkins; March 15, 1947) is an American jazz and pop singer.

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Johnny Mathis

John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer of popular music.

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José Carreras

José Carreras, is the stage name of Josep Maria Carreras i Coll (born 5 December 1946), a tenor who is particularly known for his performances in the operas of Verdi and Puccini.

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Joseph Brooks (songwriter)

Joseph Brooks, born Joseph Kaplan (March 11, 1938 – May 22, 2011), and also known as Joe Brooks or Joey Brooks, was an American composer, director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Just Whitney

Just Whitney is the fifth studio album by American recording artist Whitney Houston, released on December 10, 2002 in North America by Arista Records.

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Kenny Rogers

Kenneth Ray Rogers (born August 21, 1938) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur.

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Kids Are People Too

Kids Are People Too is an American television series that ran on Sunday mornings from 1978 to 1982 on ABC.

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Kvitka Cisyk

Kvitka (or "Kasey") Cisyk (Квітка Цісик, Kvitka Tsisyk; April 4, 1953, The Ukrainian Week (11 April 2013) – March 29, 1998) was an American coloratura soprano of Ukrainian ethnicity.

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LeAnn Rimes

Margaret LeAnn Rimes Cibrian (born August 28, 1982) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and author.

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Lip sync

Lip sync (short for lip synchronization) is a technical term for matching a speaking or singing person's lip movements with prerecorded sung or spoken vocals that listeners hear, either through the sound reinforcement system in a live performance or via television, computer, cinema speakers, or generally anything with audio output in other cases.

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List of Billboard Hot 100 chart achievements and milestones

This is a comprehensive listing that highlights significant achievements and milestones based upon ''Billboard'' magazine's singles charts, most notably the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.

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List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1977

These are the Billboard magazine Hot 100 number one hits of 1977.

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List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1977 (U.S.)

These are the Billboard adult contemporary chart number-one hits of 1977.

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List of number-one singles of 1977 (Canada)

This is a list of the weekly Canadian RPM magazine number one Top Singles chart of 1977.

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Loleatta Holloway

Loleatta Holloway (November 5, 1946 – March 21, 2011) was an American singer, mainly known for disco songs such as "Hit and Run" and "Love Sensation", both of which have been sampled extensively.

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Mike Curb

Michael "Mike" Curb (born December 24, 1944, Savannah, Georgia, United States) is an American musician, record company executive, motorsports car owner, and politician who served as the 42nd Lieutenant Governor of California from 1979 to 1983 under Democratic Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown, Jr. He was acting governor of California while Brown spent time outside California pursuing presidential ambitions.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John, (born 26 September 1948) is an English-Australian singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, and activist.

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On the Side of Angels

"On the Side of Angels" is a song written by Gary Burr and Gerry House, and recorded by American country music artist LeAnn Rimes.

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Pat Boone

Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone (born June 1, 1934) is an American singer, composer, actor, writer, television personality, motivational speaker, and spokesman.

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Patti Smith

Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.

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Percy Faith

Percy Faith (April 7, 1908 – February 9, 1976) was a Canadian bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas standards.

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Perry Como

Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (May 18, 1913 – May 12, 2001) was an American singer and television personality.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Physical (Olivia Newton-John song)

"Physical" is a song by the British-born Australian singer Olivia Newton-John for her twelfth studio album Physical.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Robert Goulet

Robert Gérard Goulet (November 26, 1933 October 30, 2007) was an American singer and actor of French-Canadian ancestry.

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Samantha Cole

Samantha Cole (October 19, 1978) is an American dance-pop singer/songwriter and actress.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Soft rock

Soft rock (or lite rock) is a subgenre of pop rock that largely features acoustic guitars and slow-to-mid tempos.

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SpinMedia

SpinMedia (formerly Buzz Media) was an American digital publisher which owned a number of pop culture websites, including Spin, Stereogum, Vibe and The Frisky.

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Stereogum

Stereogum is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, song premieres, and irreverent commentary.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Love Album (Westlife album)

The Love Album is the seventh studio album and second & last cover album by Irish boy band Westlife.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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Theme from A Summer Place

"Theme from A Summer Place" is a song with lyrics by Mack Discant and music by Max Steiner, written for the 1959 film A Summer Place, which starred Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Valeria Lynch

María Cristina Lancelotti (January 7, 1952 in Buenos Aires), better known by her stage name Valeria Lynch, is an Argentine singer and actress.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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Westlife

Westlife were an Irish pop vocal group, formed in Dublin in 1998 and disbanded in 2012.

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Whitney Houston

Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer and actress.

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You Light Up My Life (Debby Boone album)

You Light Up My Life (1977) is the first solo album from singer Debby Boone.

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You Light Up My Life (film)

You Light Up My Life is a 1977 American romantic drama film written and directed by Joseph Brooks, starring Didi Conn, Joe Silver, and Michael Zaslow, and follows a young woman named Laurie (Conn) with dreams of becoming a singer who soon finds herself pressed by young friends to sing and her father, who wants her to be a comic.

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You Light Up My Life (Johnny Mathis album)

You Light Up My Life is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on March 13, 1978, by Columbia Records.

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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.

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You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs

You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs or simply You Light Up My Life, is the second studio album by American country singer LeAnn Rimes.

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1977 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1977.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Light_Up_My_Life_(song)

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