Here I Am (Air Supply song)

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"Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You)"
Here I Am by Air Supply Australian vinyl single A-side.jpg
A-side label of the Australian vinyl single
Single by Air Supply
from the album The One That You Love
B-side "Don't Turn Me Away"
ReleasedAugust 31, 1981
Genre Soft rock
Length3:50
Label Big Time
Arista (US)
Songwriter(s) Norman Sallitt
Producer(s) Harry Maslin
Air Supply singles chronology
"The One That You Love"
(1981)
"Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You)"
(1981)
"Sweet Dreams"
(1981)

"Here I Am" (also titled as "Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You)") is a song written and first recorded by Norman Saleet and released as a single in 1980 on RCA Records. It was recorded the following year by the British/Australian soft rock duo Air Supply and released as the second single from their sixth studio album The One That You Love .

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Background

"Here I Am" was written by singer-songwriter Norman Saleet who released it as a single in 1980, backed with "This Time I Know It's Real". Both songs appear on Saleet's 1982 sole studio album Here I Am.

In 1981, Air Supply released their version which was a top 5 hit in the US. To prevent confusion, the song was originally released as "Here I Am" on the LP but was re-titled "Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You)" for the release of the single, so as not to be confused with the group's No. 1 hit song "The One That You Love" earlier in the year which contains the lyrics: "Here I am, the one that you love." Lead vocals on "Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You)" were performed by the two vocalists in the group, Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock. Record World described it as an "elegantly harmonized ballad." [1]

Chart performance

Air Supply's version was released as a single in the fall of 1981, and peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in November of that year, remaining in the top 40 for 15 weeks. [2] The song also spent three weeks atop the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. [3]

Charts

Reception

Reviewing a live performance of the song in 2013 for The Paris Review, Robin Hemley described it as sounding "kind of like Every Other Song in the World to Me". [13]

Personnel

See also

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