Debby Boone – You Light Up My Life

“You Light Up My Life” – Single by Debby Boone from the album You Light Up My Life
Released: August 16, 1977
Recorded: April 1977
Label: Warner Bros.-Curb
Songwriter: Joe Brooks
Producer: Joe Brooks

You Light Up My Life” is a ballad written by Joseph Brooks, and originally recorded by Kasey Cisyk for the soundtrack album to the 1977 film of the same title.

In 1977, Debby Boone, Pat Boone’s daughter, recorded the song under the guidance of Curb Records executive Mike Curb and songwriter Joseph Brooks. Boone recorded her vocals over a pre-existing instrumental track that Brooks already had developed for the film’s soundtrack. The song was released as both a Warner-Curb Records single and as the title track to her first solo album, You Light Up My Life, which she released on Warner Bros. Records, Curb Records’ parent label.

The single became the biggest single of the 1970s in the United States, setting a new Billboard Hot 100 record for most weeks spent at number one.