You're My World
| "You're My World" | ||||
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| Single by Cilla Black | ||||
| B-side | "Suffer Now I Must" | |||
| Released | 1964 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Genre | Easy listening | |||
| Length | 2:58 | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
| Writer(s) | Umberto Bindi, Gino Paoli, Carl Sigman | |||
| Producer(s) | George Martin | |||
| Cilla Black singles chronology | ||||
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"You're My World" is a ballad originally recorded in 1963 as "Il Mio Mondo" ("My World") by Umberto Bindi, who co-wrote the Italian-language version with Gino Paoli. Rendered with English lyrics by Carl Sigman as "You're My World", the song has reached No. 1 in Australia (twice), Belgium, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa and United Kingdom via recordings by Cilla Black, Daryl Braithwaite, Guys 'n' Dolls and Helen Reddy. (Black's and Reddy's versions reached the US Top 40 in 1964 and 1977, respectively.) The song also went to No. 1 in France and Spain via the respective translations "Ce monde" and "Mi Mundo", both sung by Richard Anthony.
1960s hit versions
Cilla Black
Although the original Italian version by composer Umberto Bindi was not a hit, even in Italy, the song came to the attention of UK record producer George Martin, who commissioned an English version to be recorded by his protégée Cilla Black.
Black cut the song — translated as "You're My World" — at Abbey Road Studios with Johnny Pearson conducting his orchestra and The Breakaways providing background vocals. Black has said that her road manager and future husband Bobby Willis also sang on the track. Judd Proctor was the lead guitarist on the session.[1]
"You're My World" reached No. 1 in Britain on the chart dated 30 May 1964 and remained there for a total of four weeks, one week more than Black's preceding single "Anyone Who Had a Heart".[2] Although Black returned to the UK Top Ten eight times, "You're My World" was her final No. 1 hit.
Black's "You're My World" was also No. 1 in Australia for two weeks that July when it also spent three weeks at No. 2 in New Zealand while in South Africa the disc was the second biggest hit for the year 1964.[3] A Top Twenty hit in Denmark, the track also reached No. 12 in Canada,[4] No. 2 in Ireland, No. 8 in Norway[5] and No. 7 in Sweden.[6]
"You're My World" was the first track by Black to be released in the US, where the singer was signed to Capitol Records. Peaking at No. 26 in August 1964, "You're My World" was Black's only Top 40 hit in the United States.
An alternative take from the recording sessions which yielded the Cilla Black hit version of "You're My World" was later issued, with the opening notes being likened to be the sound of musicians tuning up. Both the 1964 versions, however, remain faithful to Bindi's strong vocal delivery and the instrumentation of his original recording in Italian.
Black remade "You're My World" in 1985 for her Surprisingly Cilla album and then again in 1993 for her Through the Years album; both tracks attempted to capture the original's orchestral quality via synthesizers.
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Subsequent to the success of Cilla Black's "You're My World" in the English-speaking world, Richard Anthony recorded a translation for release in France as "Ce Monde", which was No. 1 for six weeks in the summer of 1964 and that autumn reached No. 3 in Belgium (Wallonia). Anthony also made the song a hit in its original Italian format, taking "Il Mio Mondo" into the Italian charts for the first time with a No. 20 peak in 1964/5. Anthony, who recorded the English rendition under the title "You Are My World", also reached No. 1 in Spain in January 1965 with the rendering "Mi Mundo" which afforded Anthony a concurrent Top Ten hit in Argentina despite a local version by Juan Ramón (es) - entitled "En Mi Mundo" - having reached the Argentine Top 20 in the autumn of 1964.
Paris-based German-born songstress Ria Bartok (fr) recorded "Ce Monde" for an EP released by Columbia/EMI (France) in September 1964: that same month the track was issued as 7" single Pathé 77-519 in Canada where it reached No. 1 on that nation's French-language chart.[7] Bartok also included "Mi Mundo" on a Spanish-language EP she recorded.[8]
The success of the Cilla Black version of "You're My World" in South Africa did not preclude the success of a local cover version by Ray Walter which rose as high as No. 2 on South Africa's weekly hit parade.
The Finnish language rendering of "You're My World" entitled "Olet kaikki" has become a pop music standard in Finland due to its success on the Finnish hit parade as recorded by Johnny Liebkind (fi) on October 26, 1968.
| Preceded by "Juliet" by The Four Pennies |
UK #1 single "You're My World" by Cilla Black |
Succeeded by "It's Over" by Roy Orbison |
| Preceded by "Requests" EP: "Long Tall Sally"/"Boys"/"I Call Your Name" by The Beatles |
Australian Kent Music Report #1 single "You're My World" by Cilla Black July 12, 1964 - July 18, 1964 |
Succeeded by "A Hard Day's Night"/ "Things We Said Today" by the Beatles |
| Preceded by "J'y Pense et Puis J'oublie" by Claude François |
France #1 single "Ce monde" by Richard Anthony August 15, 1964 - September 19, 1964 |
Succeeded by "Vous Permettez Monsieur?" by Salvatore Adamo |
| Preceded by "The House of the Rising Sun" by the Animals |
Spain #1 single "Mi Mundo" by Richard Anthony January 30, 1965 |
Succeeded by "Vamos a la cama" by Los Chavalitos |
1970s hit versions
| "You're My World" | ||||
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| Single by Helen Reddy | ||||
| from the album Ear Candy | ||||
| B-side | "Thank You" | |||
| Released | 1977 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Genre | Easy listening | |||
| Length | 2:41 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Writer(s) | Umberto Bindi, Gino Paoli, Carl Sigman | |||
| Producer(s) | Kim Fowley | |||
| Helen Reddy singles chronology | ||||
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Helen Reddy
"You're My World" became a Top 20 hit in the US in 1977 via a remake by Helen Reddy introduced on her album Ear Candy whose recording at Brother Studio in Santa Monica was helmed by veteran producer Kim Fowley with the assistance of Earle Mankey with arranging/conducting duties carried out by David Carr. Ritchie Blackmore has been credited with playing guitar on Reddy's recording of "You're My World":[9] Deep Purple, the group Blackmore had fronted, had been managed by Jeff Wald who in 1977 was Helen Reddy's manager and husband (Blackmore's name does not appear in the official credits listed on the Ear Candy album).
A smash hit in Chicago (chart peak: No. 4), Reddy's "You're My World" otherwise failed to break in any first-tier metropolitan market: the track did reach No. 2 in Buffalo and received moderate support in a number of regional markets, reaching a Billboard Hot 100 peak of No. 18 in July 1977. "You're My World" was thus Reddy's highest charting single since "Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" almost two years previously, besting the No. 29 peak of "I Can't Hear You No More" the lead single off Reddy's precedent Music, Music album (although "You're My World" fell short of "I Can't Hear You No More"'s No. 1 Billboard A/C chart peak with a No.5 peak). However "You're My World" would prove to be Reddy's last Top 40 hit.
"You're My World" did afford Reddy a No. 1 hit in Mexico, where the track spent six months in the Top Ten from October 1977 to March 1978.
In the UK the Helen Reddy remake of "You're My World" was relegated to the B-side of another track from Ear Candy: the Becky Hobbs composition "Long Distance Love", which failed to chart upon its June 1977 release.
Reddy's 1978 concert album Live in London - recorded at the London Palladium - features the singer performing "You're My World".
Also
Daryl Braithwaite of Sherbet remade "You're My World" as his first solo recording; released in October 1974 the track entered the Australian chart dated November 11, 1974 following Braithwaite's performing of "You're My World" on the debut episode of the iconic Australian pop music show Countdown broadcast November 8, 1974. Produced by Tweed Harris, Braithwaite's "You're My World" spent the first three weeks of 1975 at No. 1 on the Australian chart. It was Braithwaite's version of "You're My World" that inspired a young Tina Arena who heard her sister's copy of Braithwaite's single; Arena's impromptu performance of "You're My World" at a wedding led to her launching her performing career at age 7 on the TV show "Young Talent Time". However Arena has never recorded "You're My World". Daryl Braithwaite remade "You're My World" for his 2008 album The Lemon Tree which featured acoustic remakes of several of his hits.
Prior to the massive success of the Helen Reddy version of "You're My World" in Mexico that territory had afforded hit status to a version of the song's Spanish rendering, "Eres mi mundo" having given Grupo Yndio (es) their career record in 1976.
A remake of "You're My World" by the British group Guys 'n' Dolls was overlooked in the UK but reached No. 1 in the Netherlands for four weeks in May and June 1977: the track also reached No. 1 in Belgium and was a minor hit in Germany (No. 48) [10] (in its release in the two last-named territories the track was identified as "You Are My World"). Paul Griggs sang lead on the Guys 'n' Dolls version of "You're My World" with Martine Howard's vocals also prominently featured.
| Preceded by "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas |
Australian Kent Music Report #1 single "You're My World" by Daryl Braithwaite January 6, 1975 - January 20, 1975 |
Succeeded by "I Can Help" by Billy Swan |
| Preceded by "Non Stop Dance" by Gibson Brothers |
Dutch Top 40 #1 single "You're My World" by Guys 'n' Dolls May 14, 1977 - June 4, 1977 |
Succeeded by "Ma Baker" by Boney M |
Other recorded versions of You're My World
| Year | Artist/ *alternate title of rendition if applicable* | Details | Year | Artist/ *alternate title of rendition if applicable* | Details | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Joan Baxter | Embassy WB 633 budget soundalike of Cilla Black hit recording B-side is "Walk on By" | 1997 | Sam Brown4 | track featured on her single "I Forgive You" Demon Records D2002CD & also as bonus track on Japanese release of her album Box Crown/Loudwoof LRCL-4023 | ||
| Gloria Lasso/ *Ce monde* French | on her album Canta en Frances Musart D 991 | Garry Hagger | on his album My Life Paradiso PA 670 2 | ||||
| Angelina Monti de/ *Il mio mondo* Italian | Telefunken #? 1964 is an estimated year of recording | Raff Vetrugno/ *Il mio mondo* Italian | Polygram PY901 B-side is "Il mio mondo" (instrumental) | ||||
| Shirley Zwerus nl | Imperial IH 610 B-side is "Who Knows Why" | 1998 | Jane McDonald5 | on her album Jane McDonald Focus Music Int'l Ltd FMCD1 recorded at Abbey Road Studios:6 features Hank Marvin on guitar | |||
| 1965 | Heidi Bruhl/ *Wie ein traum* German | on her album Verliebt Wie Du Und Ich Philips 843 734 PY | 2000 | Dreamlovers | on their album 15 Hits CNR Music 2103130 | ||
| Michel Louvain/ *Ce monde* French | on the album Gala 65 Avec Margot Et Michel La Compagnie Campo Ltée CT-33310 | Stig Rossen da | on his album Stories Polydor 07 3145 47806 2 | ||||
| Kirsti Sparboe/ *Du er alt* Norwegian | Triola TN 245 B-side is "Gaar omkring i solen" | Renato Zero/ *Il mio mondo* Italian | on his album Tutti gli zeri del mondo Fonopoli/Sony Music FON 498489 in medley with two other Umberto Bindi compositions: "Il nostro concerto" & "La musica è finita" | ||||
| Anita Traversi/ *Meine welt bist du* German | Ariola 18208 B-side is "Fast zu spät" | 2001 | Ornella Vanoni/ *Il mio mondo* Italian | on her album E Poi...la Tua Bocca Da Bacciare Epic 50 9975 04972 2 7 | |||
| 1966 | Vince Hill | on his album You're My World 1 Music For Pleasure MFP 5255 | 2002 | George Salinas | on his album 20 Love Songs Mouse Music Company 120300-1 | ||
| Elvira Voća/ *Moj svijet* Croatian | on her EP Kupi mi malo cvijeca Jugoton EPY 3557 | 2003 | Los Angeles de Charly/ *Eres mi mundo* Spanish | on their album Recuerdos Fonovisa 350872 | |||
| 1967 | Glen Campbell | on his album Gentle on My Mind Capitol ST 2809 | Anita Sarawak | on her album Love Me EMI Music Distribution 541845 | |||
| Britt Bergström sv/ *Du är min* Swedish | Scan Disc SC 1073 B-side is "Romeo och Jula" | Franco Simone *Il mio mondo* Italian | on his album Dizionario (Rosso) Dei Sentimenti Azzura 907816 | ||||
| 1968 | Dionne Warwick | on her album Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls Scepter 568 | 2004 | Bouke nl | on his album A Song For Love CD Hal C45924 | ||
| 1969 | Norro Wilson | on his album Dedicated to: Only You Smash SRS-67116 | El Chalinillo/ *Eres mi mundo* Spanish | on his album Mientras viva EMI Music Distribution 50059 | |||
| 1970 | Roy Drusky | on his album All My Hard Times Mercury MCR 4 61306 | 2005 | Laura Gissara | on album Australian Idol Final 13: Australian Made - The Hits Sony Music Distribution 674719 | ||
| Terry Rice-Milton | CBS S 5101 (UK)/ Date JZSP 154024 (US) B-side is "Sure Enough Baby" | Marcie Jones | on her album Here I Am CDBY 60017 | ||||
| 1971 | Tom Jones | on his album Tom Jones Sings She's a Lady Decca SKL5089 (UK)/Parrot XPAS 71046 (US) | 2006 | Claudio Baglioni/ *Il mio mondo* Italian | on his album Quelli degli altri tutti qui Sony BMG srl 08 2876 89732 7 1 | ||
| 1974 | Birthe Kjær *Du' mit liv* Danish | on her album Tennessee Waltz Philips 6318 023 | Patrizio Buanne/ *Il mio mondo* Italian | on his album Forever Begins Tonight UMTV 1707174: 7 album completed at Abbey Road Studios6 after preliminary recording in Vienna & Warsaw | |||
| Wizex/2 *Du är hela min värld* Swedish | on their album Skratta & le Starec SR 2001 | Julie Dingman Evans, Marie-France Arcilla | on Shout! The Mod Musical cast recording Rhino 74791 medley with "All I See is You" | ||||
| 1977 | Howard Carpendale | on his album Jede Farbe ist schön Electrola 066-32 082 | 2007 | Amy Cruz tl | on her album Remember My Name Able Music Int'l #? | ||
| Kari Tapio/ *Olet Kaikki* Finnish | on his album Kaipuu Scandia SLP 643 | The Dakotas | on their album Evolution Maximus Records #? | ||||
| Matti & Teppo fi/ *Olet Kaikki* Finnish | on their album Sait mitä hait M&T Productions MTLP-8/ single release M&T Productions MTHLP-1009 A-side is "Pää pyörälle" | Pentti Hietanen fi/ *Olet Kaikki* Finnish | on his album Con Amore Capitol/EMI 946 3 86663 25 | ||||
| Anneli Pasanen fi/ *Olet Kaikki* Finnish | on her album Rakastan jokaista päivää CBS 82423 | Antonella Ruggiero/ *Il mio mondo* Italian | on her album Genova, la Superba Libera 0186882 | ||||
| 1978 | Eve Bridger | on her EP The World of Eve Bridger Hillside HIL EP 4009 | 2008 | AK-7/ *Eres mi mundo* Spanish | on their album Renaciendo Fonovisa 353692 | ||
| Mike Fabian | EMI Columbia 1C 006-32 947 A-side is "Was Der Sommer Weiss..." | Jade Adams | on her EP Forever & a Day Everyday Records #? | ||||
| 1979 | Johnny Rodriguez | on his album Rodriguez Was Here Mercury – SRM-1-5015 | Natasha Hamilton & Kush | on Liverpool – The Number Ones Album EMI 50999 5 19522 2 8 | |||
| 1980 | Tracy Nelson | on her album Come See About Me Flying Fish FF209 | Marko Lämsä fi/ *Olet Kaikki* Finnish | on his album Olet Kaikki Suomen Mediamusiikki Oy #? | |||
| 1981 | Joe Harris nl | on his album 25 Jaar Gnome GD 29011 GL track is a duet with Chrissy | Anke Pietrangeli | on her album Tribute to the Great Female Vocalists EMI #? | |||
| Iva Zanicchi/ *En mi mundo* Spanish | on her album Nostalgias Epic EPC 32396 | 2009 | Alexia/ *Il mio mondo*Italian | on her album Ale & C Edel 845753 | |||
| 1985 | Umberto Bindi/ *Il mio mondo* Italian | on his album Bindi Arison TAR 12422 as a duet with Loredana Bertè | Morgan/ *Il mio mondo* Italian | on his album Italian Songbook, Vol. 1 Columbia 08 8697 49561 2 9 | |||
| 1987 | Michèle Torr/ *Ce monde* French | on her album Chansons de toujours AZ 105112 | El Trono de Mexico/ *Eres mi mundo* Spanish | on their album Reunion entre amigos Skalona Records SKAL6900 | |||
| 1988 | Jorma Kalevi fi/ *Olet Kaikki* Finnish | JKS 103 A-side is "Si Si Si" | 2010 | Jane McDonald | on her album Live at the London Palladium JMD Records JANEMCD 2 | ||
| 1989 | Lisa Nilsson | on her album Lean on Love RCA 74321 10992 2 (BMG) | Christian Delagrange fr/ *Ce monde* French | on his album Histoires d'amour Play It Again Sam 35 9697 22913 2 6 | |||
| Rose-Marie | on her album The Rose-Marie Party Album Telstar STAR-2374 | Pate Mustajärvi/ *Olet Kaikki* Finnish | on album Reino & Aino – Rakkaustarina Motley MOTCD 223 | ||||
| 1991 | Kikki Danielsson/2 *Du är hela min värld* Swedish | on her album Vägen hem till dej Sweden Music/ Universal Music 849 064-2 | 2011 | The Borderers | on their album Tales of Love & Loss+Rise Up! Celtic Records 9330938001307 | ||
| Topi Sorsakoski/ *Olet Kaikki* Finnish | on his album Yksinäisyys Parlophone 777-798268 | Mary Byrne | on her album Mine & Yours Sony Music 88697869142 | ||||
| 1994 | Tanja Berckmans | on album VTM Soundmixshow 1994 3 Paradiso PA 645 2 | Janene Lovullo | on her album This Moment | |||
| Joe Longthorne | on his album The Joe Longthorne Songbook Ronco Silver CDSR 059: track also featured on his 2002 compilation release You're My World Recall (UK) 376 | Denisse Malebrán/ *Il mio mondo* Italian | on her album Mi Caravana Oveja Negra 5903340 track is a duet with Camilo Salinas es | ||||
| 2012 | Boy George/ *Il mio mondo* Italian | Announced 8 | |||||
| Alison Jiear | on her album Forgiveness' Embrace Dress Circle DAD0072 | ||||||
| Footnotes | |||||||
| 1 | The You're My World album by Vince Hill was arranged by Johnny Pearson arranger of Cilla Black's hit recording of "You're My World". | ||||||
| 2 | Kikki Danielsson, who recorded "Du är hela min värld" as a soloist in 1991, was lead singer on the 1974 Wizex version of the song. | ||||||
| 3 | VTM Soundmixshow 1994 features contestants from the Belgian edition of Soundmixshow on which Tanja Berckmans had performed "You're My World" in the guise of Cilla Black | ||||||
| 4 | Sam Brown made her recording of "You're My World" to serve as the theme song for a Dutch TV tribute to her mother Vicki Brown who as a member of the Breakaways had sung on Cilla Black's hit recording of "You're My World". | ||||||
| 5 | The Jane McDonald album version of "You're My World" was issued as CD-single Focus Music Int'l Ltd FMCD1 which featured three additional mixes two of which: an extended dance remix and its "dub" version, had a 12-inch single release as Focus Music Int'l Ltd FM1 . | ||||||
| 6 | Abbey Road Studios was the site of Cilla Black's hit recording of "You're My World". | ||||||
| 7 | The album Forever Begins Tonight by Patrizio Buanne features the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. | ||||||
| 8 | Boy George is scheduled to record a four-track EP featuring his version of "Il Mio Mondo" on February 11–12, 2012. | ||||||
Miscellany
A thirty-three second outtake from an Abbey Road Studios session by the Beatles dated 3 June 1964 is said to be a snippet of "You're My World": presumably still in the Abbey Road vaults, this track has yet to be released or bootlegged.[11]
Elvis Presley kept a copy of the Cilla Black single of "You're My World" in his personal jukebox.[12] When the Beatles visited Presley at his Bel Air home on 27 August 1965 the group jammed with Presley in an impromptu rendition of "You're My World":[13] reportedly the song was deemed a tribute to Presley's intended wife Priscilla Beaulieu, as its singer Cilla Black's full first name was Priscilla.[14]
Miss America 1986 Susan Akin - Miss Mississippi 1985 - sang "You're My World" in the talent competition of the Miss America Pageant broadcast on NBC 14 September 1985 from Convention Hall in Atlantic City.[15]
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