"I'm Leaving It All Up to You" is a song first put out by the Don & Dewey duo in 1957 and written by Dewey Terry and Donald Harris, the members of that duo. It was popularized by Dale and Grace, becoming a number-one hit for the duo in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in late 1963. It was the first time a hit duet was succeeded by another duet on the number-one spot.[1]
The song spent two weeks atop the easy listening chart that same year. This was the number one song on the date President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Dale and Grace were in Dallas, Texas, on the day of the assassination and scheduled to perform that night as part of Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars (with Bobby Rydell, Jimmy Clanton, and Brian Hyland), and had actually waved to the president's motorcade from a vantage point near their hotel moments before the assassination.[1]
The song was covered in 1970 by Linda Ronstadt on her Nashville recorded Silk Purse album. In 1974, it became a chart-topping hit in the U.S. again when brother and sister duo Donny and Marie Osmond covered the song. That September, it reached number four on the Hot 100 and number one on the easy listening chart.[2]
| Preceded by "Deep Purple" by Nino Tempo and April Stevens |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single November 23, 1963 (two weeks) |
Succeeded by "Dominique" by The Singing Nun |