I Just Want to Be Your Everything

I Just Want to Be Your Everything

Infobox Single
Name = I Just Want to Be Your Everything


Artist = Andy Gibb
from Album = Flowing Rivers
Released = May 1977 (U.S.)
Format = 7"
Recorded = 1977
Genre = Rock, soft rock, disco
Length = 3:45
Label = RSO Records
Writer = Barry Gibb
Producer = Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten, and Karl Richardson
Last single = "Words and Music"/"Westfield Mansions"
(1976)
This single = "I Just Want to Be Your Everything"
(1977)
Next single = "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water"
(1977)

Infobox Single
Name = I Just Want to Be Your Everything


Artist = Connie Smith
from Album = New Horizons
Released = October 1977 (U.S.)
Format = 7"
Recorded = 1977
Genre = Country, disco
Length = 3:16
Label = Monument Records
Writer = Barry Gibb
Producer =
Last single =
This single =
Next single =

"I Just Want to Be Your Everything" was a hit song by pop singer Andy Gibb. The first single released from his debut album, "Flowing Rivers", it became the first of three consecutive number one Billboard Hot 100 singles for Gibb. Co-written with his brother, Barry Gibb, it also reached number 19 on the R&B singles chart.

The song was #22 on "Billboard's All Time Top 100." [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/specials/hot100/charts/top100-titles-30.shtml]

ong history

According to Amy Hanson of Allmusic, Andy Gibb viewed "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" as "one of the most personal and meaningful songs he ever performed." Although brother Barry is the only credited writer for the song, both he and Andy wrote "Everything" in Bermuda as a tribute to Andy's recent marriage and his new wife. [ [http://wm07.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:kvfwxxuald6e] Hanson, Amy, "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" by Andy Gibb, Allmusic.]

"Everything" was Gibb's first single release in the United States. Released in May 1977, the song quickly broke in popularity and by the end of July, reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100.

Chart run

"Everything" spent a cumulative four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song first reached the top of the chart on July 30 for the first of three consecutive weeks. Then, The Emotions went to No. 1 with "Best of My Love" on August 20 for the first of four straight weeks.

However, "Everything" maintained strong popularity, remaining in the Top 10 before returning to No. 1 for one final week on September 15. "Everything" then fell out of the top spot for good, being replaced once again by "Best of My Love."

"Everything" enjoyed one of the longest Top 40 runs in the Billboard Hot 100 to that time; its 23-week run spanned from the end of May through the end of October.

Connie Smith version

The best-known cover version of "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" was recorded by country singer Connie Smith. Released in the fall of 1977, Smith's version, according to AMG reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine, was "relatively faithful" to Gibb's version [ [http://wm07.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:avftxqugldte] Erlewine, Stephen Thomas, "Greatest Hits on Monument" by Connie Smith, Allmusic] and — given its disco-influenced sound — also a departure from her honky-tonk songs of the 1960s and early 1970s. [ibid.]

"Everything" became Smith's last Top 20 hit on the "Billboard magazine" Hot Country Singles chart in January 1978, peaking at No. 14.

American Idol Relation

Jason Castro of American Idol (season 7) covered this song on the show for the 70's themed week.

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References

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*Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.
*Whitburn, Joel, "Top Pop Singles: 1955-2006," 2007.


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