Being with You (song)

"Being with You"
Single by Smokey Robinson
from the album Being with You
B-side "What's in Your Life for Me"
Released March 9, 1981
Format 7"
Recorded January, 1981
Studio Sound Recorders
(North Hollywood, California, United States)
Genre R&B, soul
Label Motown
Writer(s) Smokey Robinson
Producer(s) George Tobin in Association With Mike Piccirillo
Certification Gold (RIAA)
Smokey Robinson singles chronology
"Let Me Be the Clock"
(1980)		 "Being with You"
(1981)		 "You Are Forever"
(1981)

"Being with You" is a 1981 song recorded by American singer Smokey Robinson and is the title-track from his Gold-certified album with the same name. The song spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Hot Soul Singles chart during the Spring of 1981 and reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100,[1] behind "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes, his highest charting solo hit on the Billboard pop charts.

“ Now let me tell ya about a coincidental relationship between Smokey at #2 and Kim Carnes who's at #1 again this week. Kim's last hit was "More Love", her remake of an old Smokey Robinson hit. Well Smokey liked Kim's version so much that he wrote her another song, but when Smokey's producer heard the demo, he told Smokey, you oughta record it yourself, and that's the song we heard in the #2 position. And how ironic it is that Smokey's recording of the song he'd written for Kim Carnes has been kept out of the #1 spot by a Kim Carnes hit for 3 weeks running. - Casey Kasem, American Top 40[2] ”

It hit No. 1 on the U.S. Cash Box Top 100.[3] The track was also a No. 1 hit in the UK Singles Chart in June 1981, becoming Robinson's second UK No. 1 single and his first as a solo artist.[4][5]

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1981) Peak
position
Australia [6] 14
Canada Top Singles[7] 5
Canadian Adult Contemporary 5
France [8] 2
New Zealand[8] 1
UK 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 2
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks[9] 4
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles 1
U.S. Cash Box Top 100[3] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1981) Position
Australia [6] 95
Canada [10] 16
New Zealand [11] 7
UK [12] 13
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [13] 13
U.S. Cash Box [14] 19

References

  1. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 497.
  2. ↑ Casey Kasem's American Top 40 from June 6th, 1981
  3. 1 2 http://50.6.195.142/archives/80s_files/19810523.html
  4. ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 394–5. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  5. ↑ Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. pp. 214–5. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
  6. 1 2 http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-top-50-singles-1988.htm
  7. ↑ https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.0360&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=i7hambfnrg4eo3cgtt3tq18v83
  8. 1 2 http://tsort.info/music/p5m1fu.htm
  9. ↑ https://www.billboard.com/charts/adult-contemporary/1981-05-23
  10. ↑ https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.4689&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=02v3rs2m8b53qmop9a05pp0us3
  11. ↑ http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/?chart=3870
  12. ↑ http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1981.shtml
  13. ↑ http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1981.htm
  14. ↑ http://50.6.195.142/archives/80s_files/1981YESP.html
Preceded by
"Don't Stop the Music" by Yarbrough and Peoples		 Billboard Hot Soul Singles number-one single
March 29, 1981 - May 2, 1981 		Succeeded by
"Sukiyaki" by A Taste of Honey
Preceded by
"Stand and Deliver" by Adam and the Ants		 UK Singles Chart number-one single
June 7, 1981 - June 20, 1981 		Succeeded by
"One Day in Your Life" by Michael Jackson

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