Being with You (song)

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"Being with You"
Being With You - Smokey Robinson.jpg
Single by Smokey Robinson
from the album Being with You
B-side "What's in Your Life for Me"
ReleasedJanuary 23, 1981 [1]
RecordedJanuary 1981
Studio Studio Sound Recorders
(North Hollywood, California, United States)
Genre
Length4:06
Label Motown
Songwriter(s) Smokey Robinson
Producer(s) George Tobin, Mike Piccirillo
Smokey Robinson singles chronology
"Let Me Be the Clock"
(1980)
"Being with You"
(1981)
"You Are Forever"
(1981)
Music video
"Being With You" on YouTube

"Being with You" is a 1981 song recorded by American singer Smokey Robinson. The song spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Hot Soul Singles chart from March to early May 1981 and reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100, [4] [5] [6] behind "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes, his highest charting solo hit on the Billboard pop charts. It also reached number one in the UK Singles Chart. [7]

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Background

"Being with You" is the title track from Robinson's Gold-certified album with the same name. The song reached No. 1 on the US Cash Box Top 100. [8] The track was also a No. 1 hit in the UK Singles Chart in June 1981, becoming Robinson's second UK No. 1 single and his first as a solo artist. [9] [10]

Soon after Robinson's English single was released, Motown's subsidiary label Tamla released a Spanish version of the song under the title of "Aqui Con Tigo" (Tamla T 54325F), backed with a bilingual English/Spanish version.[ citation needed ]

Comments by Casey Kasem

Now let me tell you about a coincidental relationship between Smokey at #2 and Kim Carnes who's at #1 again this week. Kim's last hit was "More Love", her remake of an old Smokey Robinson hit. Well, Smokey liked Kim's version so much that he wrote her another song, but when Smokey's producer heard the demo, he told Smokey, "You oughta record it yourself!", and that's the song we just heard in the #2 position. And how ironic it is that Smokey's recording of the song he'd written for Kim Carnes has been kept out of the #1 spot by a Kim Carnes hit for 3 weeks running. – Casey Kasem, American Top 40 [11]

Chart performance

Certifications

Certifications for "Being with You"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [23] Gold50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [24] Gold500,000^
United States (RIAA) [25] Gold1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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