Hervard
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Post by Hervard on Feb 2, 2004 17:23:40 GMT -5
Anyone who was around during the 1970s should remember this hit. A Chicago DJ interrupted this song in the closing seconds of 1977 to welcome in 1978 and say that 1977 was a turkey of a year - whatever that means.
Anyway, I like this song a lot. No, seriously!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2004 17:25:23 GMT -5
I hate it. I couldn't believe Whitney covered it in 2002.
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iceman
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Post by iceman on Feb 2, 2004 17:27:29 GMT -5
I hate it. I couldn't believe Whitney covered it in 2002. She did? I don't hate this one but its not the greatest either. |
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Post by prenatt1166 on Feb 2, 2004 18:21:21 GMT -5
UU-BRU Radio Playlist
[red]For Week Ending January 7, 1978[/red] (Rank This Week, Artist, Title) There is no "Rank Last Week" because this was the first chart. 01 Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love 02 Debby Boone - You Light Up My Life 03 Queen - We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions 04 Player - Baby Come Back 05 Linda Ronstadt - Blue Bayou 06 Billy Joel - Just The Way You Are 07 Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch 08 Dolly Parton - Here You Come Again 09 Crystal Gayle - Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue 10 Bob Welch - Sentimental Lady This was my first "official" Top 40 chart, although YLML was #1 on some of the Top 10 surveys I did in late 1977. On the UU-BRU Radio Playlist Gold Archives, YLML was the #9 single of 1977. www.keystonehighways.com/uubru1977.html:)
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Keith3000
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Post by Keith3000 on Feb 3, 2004 1:36:01 GMT -5
This is an ok song I guess..good ballad though i would think it got really overplayed -- I wasn't exactly around to listen!
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Post by reception on Feb 3, 2004 4:14:00 GMT -5
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Sean
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Post by Sean on Feb 3, 2004 17:12:43 GMT -5
Don't like it. LeAnn Rimes version is actually OK... Whitney's was DREADFUL (and I am a Whitney fan!).
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jond7699
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Post by jond7699 on Feb 3, 2004 21:47:13 GMT -5
I like this version and Leann Rimes remake wasn't bad at all but Whitney's version is horrible one of the worst I have heard her do yuk
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stevie nice
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Post by stevie nice on Feb 3, 2004 22:33:55 GMT -5
I got this far:
Topic: Debby Boone - You Lig
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Hervard
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Post by Hervard on Feb 4, 2004 12:37:38 GMT -5
HUH???
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mst3k
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Post by mst3k on Feb 4, 2004 21:52:49 GMT -5
I actually like it a little bit... the fact that I've only had to hear it a couple of times in the last 25 years certainly helps. :)
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Post by BFMR on Feb 5, 2004 11:46:36 GMT -5
he means his interest shrunk to the point where he didn't care for the song until he got to that point of the topic  Personally i don't care for the song, never really did... all versions are boooooring as hell  |
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Hervard
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Post by Hervard on Feb 5, 2004 12:02:26 GMT -5
Even though I was alive when this song was charting (I was five and a half, almost six), I was never subjected to it five times a day, since my Mom hated it so much, she changed the station everytime it played. But I did know about the song (my Dad listened to basically anything, so when he was driving and I was in the car with him, I might have heard it).
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Post by cartman2002 on Nov 12, 2006 19:51:09 GMT -5
It was #1 for 10 weeks in a row and ended up being the biggest hit of the 70's even though Debby Boone never had another top 40 hit in her career
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johnnywest
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Post by johnnywest on Nov 12, 2006 22:37:57 GMT -5
It was OK. We had to sing it in grade school, along with other "hip" songs like "The Greatest Love Of All" and "You Needed Me."
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Jeff
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Post by Jeff on Nov 13, 2006 6:08:58 GMT -5
Did You Light Up My Life ever make it to the R&B chart?
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Post by A Thug Named Slickback on Nov 13, 2006 21:02:40 GMT -5
I can't understand why this was such a massive hit.
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Arnold
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Post by Arnold on Jun 3, 2015 15:59:52 GMT -5
Anyone who was around during the 1970s should remember this hit. I was around during the 1970's, '60's, 50's and 40's, and I do remember this hit. I don't like it though. I do like music from her father, Pat Boone, who was a big recording artist of the 1950's and early '60's. |
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Hervard
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Post by Hervard on Jun 4, 2015 7:03:07 GMT -5
I can't understand why this was such a massive hit. I feel the same way about "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke. |
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richie
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Post by richie on Jun 27, 2015 15:40:30 GMT -5
I like this song, and some of Pat Boone's songs, too. I know even back in the day it was
not considered hip to like it.
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Post by DJDaveMick69 on Nov 23, 2015 5:36:33 GMT -5
I've NEVER burned out on this. In fact, I've only liked it more during the last 20 years. I dare anyone to crank this tune at full blast at every red light.  |
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Post by jdanton2 on Oct 8, 2023 10:09:14 GMT -5
Did You Light Up My Life ever make it to the R&B chart? it reached #1 at ac and #4 at country but no r&b. anyway i like the song and alot of big ballads from previous decades. the meltdowns on Pulse if big ballads like this still hit #1. |
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