It Might Be You

"It Might Be You"
side-A label by Warner Bros. Records
Side A of the US single
Single by Stephen Bishop
from the album Tootsie Soundtrack
B-side"Metamorphosis Blues" (It Might Be You)
ReleasedNovember 26, 1982
Recorded1982
GenreSoft rock
Length4:17
LabelWarner Bros.
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Dave Grusin
Stephen Bishop singles chronology
"Animal House"
(1978)
"It Might Be You"
(1982)
"Unfaithfully Yours (One Love)"
(1984)
Music video
Listen to "It Might Be You" (official music video) on YouTube

"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.[1]

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1983) Peak
position
Canadian RPM Top Singles[2] 16
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary[3] 1
Ireland[4] 19
New Zealand[5] 29
UK Singles Chart[6] 99
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[7] 25
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary[8] 1
U.S. Cashbox Top 100[9] 19

Year-end charts

Chart (1983) Rank
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[10] 95

Personnel

Notable cover versions

See also

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 34.
  2. ^ "RPM Top Singles". June 4, 1983. Archived from the original on July 2, 2015. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
  3. ^ "RPM Contemporary Adult". April 30, 1983. Archived from the original on July 2, 2015. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
  4. ^ "The Irish Charts". May 15, 1983. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
  5. ^ "NZ Top 40 Singles Chart". June 12, 1983. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
  6. ^ "Stephen Bishop". OfficialCharts.com. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
  7. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  8. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 34.
  9. ^ "Top 100 1983-04-30". Cashbox Magazine. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
  10. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1983/Top 100 Songs of 1983". Music Outfitters. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
  11. ^ "Exclusive premiere: Julian Wass covers the Tootsie song for The Pretty One". Uproxx.com. June 2, 2014. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  • Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)