Giving You the Best That I Got (song)

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"Giving You the Best That I Got"
Anitagivingsingle.jpg
Single by Anita Baker
from the album Giving You the Best That I Got
B-side "Good Enough"
ReleasedSeptember 27, 1988 [1]
Recorded1988
Genre
Length4:18 (album version)
3:54 (single version)
Label Elektra
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Michael J. Powell
Anita Baker singles chronology
"Ain't No Need to Worry"
(1987)		"Giving You the Best That I Got"
(1988)		"Just Because"
(1989)

"Giving You the Best That I Got" is a song by American R&B recording artist Anita Baker, taken from her third studio album of the same name (1988). The song was released as the album's lead single on September 27, 1988 by Elektra Records. The music video was filmed inside the 109th Field Artillery in Kingston, Pennsylvania. The song was written by Baker, Clarence Alexander Scarborough, and Randy Holland, and produced by Michael J. Powell.

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Chart performance

The song was Baker's highest charting hit on the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at number three in December 1988. [2] It also spent two weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B chart in November 1988, Baker's first number-one single on this tally. [2] In addition, the song spent one week atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart in December 1988. [3] It is also Baker's first number-one single on this chart.

Awards

The song "Giving You the Best That I Got" was released prior to the Grammy Awards eligibility cutoff date of September 30, allowing it to be nominated for four awards at the Grammy Awards of 1989. The song won in the categories Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female and Best R&B Song; it was also nominated for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year. [4] The album Giving You the Best That I Got was released in October 1988, meaning that it would not be eligible for Grammy consideration until the 1990 ceremony. There, Baker's album won in the category Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, earning her the same award two years running for a song and album of the same title.

Songwriter Skip Scarborough had offered the song to various singers, including Howard Hewett, without success. Prior to recording the song, Baker made some changes to the original, including improvising a scat opening and requesting that the tempo of the song be increased. [3]

The song was featured in a season 10 episode of Knots Landing . The song was also used in a late 1988 episode of the US daytime soap opera All My Children as well as a 1989 episode of Guiding Light . In 2019, the song appeared in the second episode of season 2 of Pose .

Michael Jordan would often sing this song to his opponents as a way of trash talking them. [5]

Personnel

Charts

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Top 75 Singles". Music Week . September 24, 1988. p. 17. The new 7" & 4-track 12" out next week...
  2. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  3. 1 2 Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)
  4. ↑ "Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female - The 31st Annual Grammy Awards (1988)". The Recording Academy . Retrieved August 5, 2018.
  5. ↑ Mack, Carson (June 7, 2020). "Michael Jordan Was Inspired By Singer Anita Baker!". TalkBasket.net. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  6. ↑ "RPM 100 Singles, December 24, 1988" (PDF). RPM – via 3345.ca.
  7. ↑ "Anita Baker – Giving You the Best That I Got". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Anita Baker: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
  9. ↑ "Anita Baker Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
  10. ↑ "Anita Baker Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
  11. ↑ "Anita Baker Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard .
  12. ↑ "1989 The Year in Music: Top Pop Singles". Billboard. Vol. 101, no. 51. December 23, 1989. p. Y-22.
  13. ↑ "Billboard Top 100 – 1989".
  14. ↑ "Adult Contemporary Songs – Year-End 1989". Billboard. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
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