Open Arms (Journey song)

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"Open Arms"
Journey Open Arms single cover.jpg
Single by Journey
from the album Escape and Heavy Metal: Original Film Soundtrack
B-side "Little Girl"
ReleasedJanuary 8, 1982 (US) [1]
Recorded1981
Genre Soft rock [2] , adult contemporary
Length3:18
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Journey singles chronology
"Don't Stop Believin'"
(1981)		"Open Arms"
(1982)		"Still They Ride"
(1982)

"Open Arms" is a song by American rock band Journey. It was released as a single from the Heavy Metal soundtrack and their 1981 album, Escape . Co-written by band members Steve Perry and Jonathan Cain, the song is a power ballad whose lyrics attempt to renew a drifting relationship. It is one of the band's most recognizable radio hits and their biggest US Billboard Hot 100 hit, reaching number two in February 1982 and holding that position for six weeks (behind "Centerfold" by the J. Geils Band and "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts). [3]

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"Open Arms" has been covered by various recording artists. American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey enjoyed an international hit with the song in 1996; hers is arguably the best-known version of the song in the United Kingdom, where it reached number 4 on the UK Singles Chart. The song has also been covered by such artists as American singer and songwriter Barry Manilow, R&B group Boyz II Men, American country music legend Dolly Parton, and Canadian singer Celine Dion. It is a favorite on reality television singing competitions as well, being performed by contestants on US shows The Voice and American Idol , and on the UK's The X Factor.

Journey's recording of "Open Arms" has been described as one of the greatest love songs ever written; [4] [5] VH1 named the song as the greatest power ballad of all time. [6] Mike DeGagne of AllMusic described it as "one of rock's most beautiful ballads", which "gleams with an honesty and feel only Steve Perry could muster." [7]

Journey version

Journey recorded "Open Arms" for their seventh studio album, Escape , which was produced by Kevin Elson and Mike Stone. Jonathan Cain had begun writing the song while he was still a member of The Babys, but Babys vocalist/bassist John Waite turned down the melody as "sentimental rubbish". Cain eventually finished the song with Steve Perry during the writing sessions for Escape, changing the key from A to D and changing the melody slightly, [8] but it was almost left off the album; Journey's guitarist Neal Schon reportedly disliked the song because "it was so far removed from anything [Journey] had ever attempted to record before". [8] Drummer Steve Smith recalls that Schon noted that it "sounds kinda Mary Poppins", [8] added to which the other members of the band were against the idea of performing ballads. [9]

In 2005 Perry commented on the emotions he felt while producing Live in Houston 1981: The Escape Tour and listening to the band performing the song 24 years previously: "I had to keep my head down on the console when "Open Arms" was on. There is one line in the song that I always wanted to be a certain way. I have ideals about certain things. The line "wanting you near" — I just wanted that line to go up and soar. I wanted it to be heartfelt. Every time it would come by I would just have to keep my head down and try to swallow the lump in my throat. I felt so proud of the song." [10]

In the Journey episode of VH1's Behind the Music , Perry recalls the recording sessions for the song becoming an ordeal; Schon taunted Perry and Cain in the studio. But when the band performed it in concert for the first time during their Escape Tour in the fall of 1981, the audience was thunderstruck, much to Schon's disbelief. After two encores, the band left the stage and Schon suddenly said, "Man, that song really kicked ass!" Perry recalled being incensed at Schon's hypocrisy. "I looked at him, and I wanted to kill him," he later said. [8]

During an episode of the radio show In the Studio with Redbeard devoted to the album Escape, Jonathan Cain said he was ill with a bad cold when he recorded the piano track to "Open Arms" and wanted to re-do the track. Everybody else disagreed and they used the track Cain recorded while "under the weather".

"Open Arms" was used on the soundtrack to the animated Canadian film Heavy Metal (released to theatres in August 1981), and it was released as the third single from Escape in January 1982 in the United States. It was also featured on two occasions during scenes of the 1982 film The Last American Virgin . It became one of Journey's biggest singles there, and the most successful of the five singles released from Escape (only one other, "Who's Crying Now", reached the top five). It stayed at number 2 for six weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, kept from the number one spot by "Centerfold" by the J. Geils Band and "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and it was also a top ten hit on Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks. The single was less successful on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks, only reaching the top forty.

The song and its status as a power ballad has been remembered years following its original release. One critic praised "Open Arms" as "a lyrical rock ballad and one of the band's best-written songs", [11] while the Associated Press wrote that the song was "fueled by Perry's operatic, high-flying vocal style." [12] It has also been referred to as a "wedding anthem" (in a December 2005 Lumino article [13] ), and VH1 placed the song at number 1 on their "25 Greatest Power Ballads" list. [14] AllMusic said "One of rock's most beautiful ballads, "Open Arms" gleams with an honesty and feel only Steve Perry could muster," [15] and a review of a Journey concert in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution characterized the song as a "classic ballad". [16] Steve Perry told the Boston Globe , "I can't tell you how many times I get a tap on the shoulder and somebody says...'This was my prom song'." [17] Billboard called it a "sentimental ballad featuring some delicate keyboard work and Steve Perry's seductive vocal." [18] The song was later included on Journey's box set Time3 (1992) and the compilation album The Essential Journey (2001).

In 2003 American Idol contestant Clay Aiken performed [19] the song during a key semi-final round of the show, and later in a duet with fellow Idol Kelly Clarkson (the winner from the previous year) on their joint February—April 2004 concert tour. "Open Arms" was included on the set list for Britney Spears' 1999 ...Baby One More Time Tour, and it was also used as the love theme for Japanese director Eiichiro Hasumi's film Umizaru (2004). [20] Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of the animated television comedy South Park , frequently reference and parody Journey and their music in their work. In Episode 132 of South Park, entitled "Erection Day" (2005), a little girl playing piano in a talent competition begins to sing the opening to "Open Arms" ("Lying beside you, here in the dark...") before the scene ends. In the 2007 film I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry the song is played during a gay benefit costume party. "Open Arms" is one of twelve greatest hits re-recorded by Journey featuring current lead vocalist Arnel Pineda on the second disc of their latest 2008 album Revelation . The song also appeared in the 1982 film The Last American Virgin as well as a 1982 episode of the US daytime soap opera General Hospital . The song was used in the Season 3 finale of Cobra Kai .

Personnel

Escape version

Revelation version

Charts

Mariah Carey version

"Open Arms"
Open Arms Mariah Carey.png
Single by Mariah Carey
from the album Daydream
B-side
  • "Slipping Away"
  • "El Amor Que Soñé"
  • "I Am Free"
ReleasedDecember 5, 1995
Recorded1995
Length3:30
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Mariah Carey singles chronology
"One Sweet Day"
(1995)		"Open Arms"
(1995)		"Always Be My Baby"
(1996)
Audio
"Open Arms" on YouTube

Mariah Carey co-produced her cover of the song with Walter Afanasieff for her fifth album, Daydream (1995). Carey's career has crossed paths with Journey's: the band's drummer Steve Smith played drums on many of her earlier singles, and its bassist for a short period in the mid-1980s, Randy Jackson, has worked with her for a long time.

The single was released as the album's third single between late 1995 and early 1996 in most markets outside the United States. It became a number 4 hit in the United Kingdom and was performed live on the BBC's flagship chart television show, Top of the Pops . It also reached the top-ten in Ireland, Poland and New Zealand; and the top-twenty in Iceland and the Netherlands. The single's music video, directed by Larry Jordan, is a live performance of the song by Carey at Madison Square Garden. The video for the Spanish version of the song, "El Amor Que Soñé", was recorded after the MSG show as Mariah performed to the studio track.

A UK CD single for "Open Arms" included the Daydream track "I Am Free" and live versions of "Fantasy" and "Vision of Love" (1990). Another version of the CD single comprised the album cuts of "Hero" (1993) and "Without You" (1994), and a radio edit of "I'll Be There" (1992).

UK sales for the song stand at 105,000 units. [35]

Critical reception

The cover was universally panned by critics. Bill Lamb felt it was "simply an uninspired song selection." [36] Stephen Thomas Erlewine also criticized the cover, calling it "second rate". [37] "Open Arms" received a negative review from Stephen Holden as well, who called it a "sobbing remake". [38] Rolling Stone called it an "ill-advised" cover. [39]

Formats and track listings

UK CD (Part 1) / Australian CD/Cassette (Part 1)

  1. "Open Arms" - 3:30
  2. "I Am Free" - 3:09
  3. "Fantasy" (Live from Fantasy: Mariah Carey at Madison Square Garden) - 4:32
  4. "Vision of Love" (Live from Fantasy: Mariah Carey at Madison Square Garden) - 3:50

UK CD (Part 2)

  1. "Open Arms"
  2. "Hero"
  3. "Without You"
  4. "I'll Be There"

Australian CD/Cassette (Part 2)

  1. "Open Arms" - 3:30
  2. "Slipping Away" - 4:32
  3. "El Amor Que Soñé" - 3:29

UK Cassette Single

  1. "Open Arms" - 3:30
  2. "I Am Free" - 3:09

European CD Single

  1. "Open Arms" - 3:30
  2. "Vision of Love" (Live from Fantasy: Mariah Carey at Madison Square Garden) - 3:49

European CD Maxi-Single / European 12" Single

  1. "Open Arms" - 3:30
  2. "Fantasy" (Live from Fantasy: Mariah Carey at Madison Square Garden) - 4:31
  3. "Vision of Love" (live from Fantasy: Mariah Carey at Madison Square Garden) - 3:49
  4. "Make It Happen" (live from Fantasy: Mariah Carey at Madison Square Garden) - 4:43

Charts

Other cover versions

Live cover performances

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