"It Might Be You" is a song with music written by Dave Grusin and lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman. It was performed by singer-songwriter Stephen Bishop in the 1982 film Tootsie, starring Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange. The song was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1983.
Bishop's recording peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on May 7, 1983 and spent eight weeks in the top 40, becoming his final top 40 song to date. It also held two weeks at No. 1 on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart in April the same year.
Chart performance Weekly charts Chart (1983)PeakpositionCanada (The Record)15Canadian RPM Top Singles16Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary1Ireland19New Zealand29UK Singles Chart99U.S. Billboard Hot 100Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - 25U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary1U.S. Cashbox Top 10019
Year-end charts Chart (1983) RankU.S. Billboard Hot 10095
Personnel Stephen Bishop - vocals Dave Grusin – electric piano, acoustic piano George Doering, Paul Jackson Jr., Mitch Holder - guitar Abraham Laboriel - bass Ian Underwood - synthesizer Carlos Vega - drums Steve Foreman - percussion Becky Porter, Billy Phedford, Marva Holcolm, Paulette Brown - backing vocals
Notable cover versions In 1991, Patti Austin included a cover on her Live album. In 1995, Roberta Flack recorded the song for use in the Forest Whitaker-directed film Waiting to Exhale. The song appears in the film, but not on the film's soundtrack album and appearing instead on her own album, Roberta. Filipino singer Erik Santos also covered the song as a duet with Marinel Santos in 2003 and it was used as the title theme song of the Philippine drama series, It Might Be You. In 2013, the song appeared over the closing credits of the film The Pretty One, covered by KÁRYYN and Julian Wass. The Pretty One shares with Tootsie the theme of a person assuming a different identity. In October 2015, Filipino singer and actor Michael Pangilinan covered the song and it was used as the theme song of the film Everyday I Love You.
See also List of Billboard Adult Contemporary number ones of 1983
References
Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
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