One thing I remember about this song back in the day: It was a HUGE hit! The radio played it like 50 times a day, lol.
yep,back in 1977,this song was massive.
REMEMBER?!? OMG! That song was being referenced EVERYWHERE! It was like; you couldn't get through an entire day without someone on TV, the radio, or in newspapers or magazines, talking about Debbie Boone and "You Light Up My Life". And the even funnier thing was: this was not all that of an unusual type of song for the radio to play back in those days. There were no Hip-Hop stations (Hell, there was no HIP-HOP, lol), RAP (...as we know it today) had not been invented yet, and very few (like ONE per city - if that) that even played much SOUL music consistently. And if you wanted to hear FUNK, your ass had better go out and buy the record, lol. Soft Rock and Light Country music ruled the airwaves, lol.
And yet strangely... I miss those days, lol.
Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time rewritten every line? And if we had the chance to do it all again, Tell me Would we? Could we?
"There's Nothing That The Proper Attitude Won't Render Funkable!"
Why has society made me feel embarrassed to admit "You Light Up My Life" is one of my favorite 70's Pop songs??? Sure, it may be a little sappy but I'll take 'sappy' over 'crappy', which is mostly what we get now.
Why should you worry about what cynics think? I don't. I like it and that's all that matters.
You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
REMEMBER?!? OMG! That song was being referenced EVERYWHERE! It was like; you couldn't get through an entire day without someone on TV, the radio, or in newspapers or magazines, talking about Debbie Boone and "You Light Up My Life". And the even funnier thing was: this was not all that of an unusual type of song for the radio to play back in those days. There were no Hip-Hop stations (Hell, there was no HIP-HOP, lol), RAP (...as we know it today) had not been invented yet, and very few (like ONE per city - if that) that even played much SOUL music consistently. And if you wanted to hear FUNK, your ass had better go out and buy the record, lol. Soft Rock and Light Country music ruled the airwaves, lol.
And yet strangely... I miss those days, lol.
Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time rewritten every line? And if we had the chance to do it all again, Tell me Would we? Could we?
There was rap then, it just wasn't on the radio. Although you could say country songs like The Devil Went Down To Georgia and Convoy were sort of rapping. Rap didn't just instantly appear with the Sugarhill Gang in 1979.
You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
REMEMBER?!? OMG! That song was being referenced EVERYWHERE! It was like; you couldn't get through an entire day without someone on TV, the radio, or in newspapers or magazines, talking about Debbie Boone and "You Light Up My Life". And the even funnier thing was: this was not all that of an unusual type of song for the radio to play back in those days. There were no Hip-Hop stations (Hell, there was no HIP-HOP, lol), RAP (...as we know it today) had not been invented yet, and very few (like ONE per city - if that) that even played much SOUL music consistently. And if you wanted to hear FUNK, your ass had better go out and buy the record, lol. Soft Rock and Light Country music ruled the airwaves, lol.
And yet strangely... I miss those days, lol.
Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time rewritten every line? And if we had the chance to do it all again, Tell me Would we? Could we?
Don't get me wrong I love '70s soft rock but some songs I can do without (like Boone's) but I get what you mean. And I do dig Captain & Tennille.
I vividly remember this song. I was very young at the time, but I remember every choir singing it at school, every couple that got married used the song in their wedding, etc. The song was a phenomenon that is now viewed as cheese.
A funny story about this song. My aunt got married in 2005 and used this song in her wedding. Mind you, she was 59 years old and getting married for the first time. This lady sang this song at her wedding and everyone in the audience snickered so much because the song was so poorly sang.
REMEMBER?!? OMG! That song was being referenced EVERYWHERE! It was like; you couldn't get through an entire day without someone on TV, the radio, or in newspapers or magazines, talking about Debbie Boone and "You Light Up My Life". And the even funnier thing was: this was not all that of an unusual type of song for the radio to play back in those days. There were no Hip-Hop stations (Hell, there was no HIP-HOP, lol), RAP (...as we know it today) had not been invented yet, and very few (like ONE per city - if that) that even played much SOUL music consistently. And if you wanted to hear FUNK, your ass had better go out and buy the record, lol. Soft Rock and Light Country music ruled the airwaves, lol.
And yet strangely... I miss those days, lol.
Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time rewritten every line? And if we had the chance to do it all again, Tell me Would we? Could we?
There was rap then, it just wasn't on the radio. Although you could say country songs like The Devil Went Down To Georgia and Convoy were sort of rapping. Rap didn't just instantly appear with the Sugarhill Gang in 1979.
I agree. That's why I qualified the term RAP with "as we know it today".
"There's Nothing That The Proper Attitude Won't Render Funkable!"
REMEMBER?!? OMG! That song was being referenced EVERYWHERE! It was like; you couldn't get through an entire day without someone on TV, the radio, or in newspapers or magazines, talking about Debbie Boone and "You Light Up My Life". And the even funnier thing was: this was not all that of an unusual type of song for the radio to play back in those days. There were no Hip-Hop stations (Hell, there was no HIP-HOP, lol), RAP (...as we know it today) had not been invented yet, and very few (like ONE per city - if that) that even played much SOUL music consistently. And if you wanted to hear FUNK, your ass had better go out and buy the record, lol. Soft Rock and Light Country music ruled the airwaves, lol.
And yet strangely... I miss those days, lol.
Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time rewritten every line? And if we had the chance to do it all again, Tell me Would we? Could we?
Don't get me wrong I love '70s soft rock but some songs I can do without (like Boone's) but I get what you mean. And I do dig Captain & Tennille.
Two different genres, but I could ALMOST compare "You Light Up My Life" with Rick James' "Super Freak" in the way the radio just played it to death! Even with responding to this thread, I haven't even played the OP's YouTube clip of "You Light Up My Life" because I've heard that song soooooooooooo many times, I can recall every note and nuance without the need to hear it again, lol.
"There's Nothing That The Proper Attitude Won't Render Funkable!"
This song does give me the creeps though. I loved how people took it as a love song, then Debbie said it was about Jesus or something.
I know why she became a one-hit wonder: they played the song too fucking much.
It sucks just as much now. WABC used to play that sappy shit at least ten times a day.
THAT's what I'm saying! We had a radio-alarm clock back in those days set to wake us up to WABC. WABC was the coolest station to listen to in those days (...aside from WBLS), and I used to love Cousin Brucie, lol. We listened to WABC morning, noon, and night.
I can still remember their little signature riff: "New York radio, WABC [DING!]" Our radio STAYED tuned to WABC.
"There's Nothing That The Proper Attitude Won't Render Funkable!"
Looks like the mighty Oprah found Debby. This is from October 2010.
You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
I bet she was Shitney's idol because she's definately the black version of Debby Boone. And just think, the once hip R&B stations were reduced a black version of shit like this.
I bet she was Shitney's idol because she's definately the black version of Debby Boone. And just think, the once hip R&B stations were reduced a black version of shit like this.
You want more irony? Whitney recorded the song for her album "Just Whitney".
I bet she was Shitney's idol because she's definately the black version of Debby Boone. And just think, the once hip R&B stations were reduced a black version of shit like this.
You want more irony? Whitney recorded the song for her album "Just Whitney".
Stuff like "Feelings","Precious And Few","Bluer Than Blue"......love those songs!
I think Morris Albert was from South America.
You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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yep,back in 1977,this song was massive.
Sure, it may be a little sappy but I'll take 'sappy' over 'crappy', which is mostly what we get now.
Don't give him any ideas. 
Hell naw!
I take full responsibility.
