| "Every Time I Think of You" | ||||
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| Single by The Babys | ||||
| from the album Head First | ||||
| B-side | "Head First" (3:57) | |||
| Released | January 1979 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Recorded | 1978 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 3:45 | |||
| Label | Chrysalis Records | |||
| Writer(s) | Jack Conrad, Ray Kennedy | |||
| Producer | Ron Nevison | |||
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| Single by Marco Borsato and Lucie Silvas | ||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album The Same Side (Lucie Silvas) Symphonica in Rosso (Marco Borsato) |
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| B-side | "Almost" (3:28) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Released | October 2, 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Format | CD single, digital download | |||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Pop | |||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 4:07 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Universal | |||||||||||||||||||
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"Every Time I Think of You" is a the title of a song written by Jack Conrad and Ray Kennedy which was a Top 20 hit single for the Babys in 1979.
Released as the lead single from the Head First album in January 1979, "Every Time I Think of You" ascended to a Billboard Hot 100 peak of #13 that April. The Babys' previous Top 40 hit "Isn't It Time" had also peaked at #13; like "Isn't It Time" - which was also a Jack Conrad/Ray Kennedy composition - "Every Time I Think of You" augmented the vocal of Babys' frontman John Waite with prominent female vocals: whereas "Isn't It Time" had featured a female chorale, "Every Time I Think of You" featured a vocal solo by Annie Bertucci. Jimmie Haskell arranged and conducted the string section heard on the track.
"Every Time I Think of You" rose as high as #8 on the Cashbox Top 100 Singles chart. "Isn't It Time" also peaked at #8 on Cashbox in December 1977. "Every Time I Think of You" afforded the Babys a hit in Australia, Canada and the Netherlands with respective peaks of #6, #8 and #11; the track also reached #41 in New Zealand.
The track which had served as B-side to "Every Time I Think of You": "Head First", was issued as the A-side of the Babys' next single with another track from the Head First album: "California", as B-side. The "Head First" single peaked at #77 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Babys would have a third and final Top 40 charting in 1980 with "Back on My Feet Again" (#33).
A #11 hit on Belgium's Flemish charts via a 2000 a remake by Get Ready!, "Every Time I Think of You" was remade in 2006 by Marco Borsato and Lucie Silvas whose version - with the spelling adjusted to "Everytime I Think of You" - was released for download 2 October 2006 to chart on the Dutch Top 40 dated 7 October 2006 at #35; released as a CD single on 6 October 2006 the track was #1 in the Netherlands for the week of 14 October 2006 remaining at #1 for three subsequent weeks. A hit on Belgium's Flemish charts at #5, "Everytime I Think of You" was added to the track listing of Lucie Silvas' album The Same Side for its release in the Netherlands.
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Everytime I Think Of You" (Marco Borsato and Lucie Silvas) | Jack Conrad, Ray Kennedy | 4:07 | ||||||
| 2. | "Almost" (Lucie Silvas) | Lucie Silvas, Judie Tzuke, Charlie Russell, Graham Kearns | 3:28 | ||||||
| Chart (2006) | Peak position |
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| Dutch Top 40 | 1 |
| Belgium Singles Chart | 5 |
| Eurochart Hot 100 Singles | 88 |
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