I'm Leaving It Up to You

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"I'm Leaving It Up to You"
I'm Leaving It Up to You - Dale & Grace.jpg
Single by Dale & Grace
from the album I'm Leaving It Up to You
B-side "Stop and Think It Over"
ReleasedSeptember 1963
Recorded1963
Genre Doo-wop [1]
Length2:13
Label Montel
Songwriter(s) Don F. Harris, Dewey Terry
Producer(s) Sam Montel
Dale & Grace singles chronology
"I'm Leaving It Up to You"
(1963)
"Stop and Think It Over"
(1964)

"I'm Leaving It Up to You" is a song written by and originally performed by Don Harris and Dewey Terry in 1957. [2] It was later popularized in 1963 by the American duo Dale and Grace, who took it to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In 1974, Donny and Marie Osmond reached the top five on the US Hot 100 chart and peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart with their cover.

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Dale and Grace version

"I'm Leaving It Up to You" first became popular when recorded by the duo Dale and Grace in 1963. Their version became a #1 hit in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in late 1963, replacing "Deep Purple" by Nino Tempo & April Stevens but ending up one position lower than that record on the 1963 end-of-the-year chart. [3]

The single also spent two weeks atop the easy listening chart. It was the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Dale and Grace were in Dallas on the day of the murder. The duo was scheduled to perform that night as part of Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars (with Bobby Rydell, Jimmy Clanton, and Brian Hyland) and had waved to the president's motorcade from a vantage point near their hotel, moments before the assassination. [3] Needless to say, Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars was cancelled that night, as was the next night in Oklahoma. [4]

Chart performance

Donny and Marie Osmond version

"I'm Leaving It (All) Up to You"
I'm Leaving It Up to You - Donny and Marie Osmond.jpg
Single by Donny and Marie Osmond
from the album I'm Leaving It All Up to You
B-side "The Umbrella Song"
ReleasedJuly 1974
Recorded Pop
Length2:51
Label MGM
Songwriter(s) Don F. Harris, Dewey Terry
Donny and Marie Osmond singles chronology
"I'm Leaving It (All) Up to You"
(1974)
"Morning Side of the Mountain"
(1974)

In 1974, "I'm Leaving It Up to You" (released and noted as "I'm Leaving It (All) Up to You") again became a chart-topping hit in the US when brother and sister duo Donny and Marie Osmond covered it in September, it reached #4 on the Hot 100 and #1 on the easy listening chart. [9] It also reached #2 in the UK. Their version became a gold record, as did the album from which the title track was taken. [10]

Chart performance

Other versions

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