"She Makes My Day" | ||||
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Single by Robert Palmer | ||||
from the album Heavy Nova | ||||
B-side | "Disturbing Behaviour" | |||
Released | 3 October 1988 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 4:21 | |||
Label | EMI | |||
Songwriter(s) | Robert Palmer | |||
Producer(s) | Robert Palmer | |||
Robert Palmer singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"She Makes My Day" on YouTube |
"She Makes My Day" is a song by English singer-songwriter Robert Palmer, released in 1988 as the third single from his ninth studio album, Heavy Nova . [1] The song was written and produced by Palmer. "She Makes My Day" reached No. 6 in both the United Kingdom and Ireland.
In Michael Luckman's book Alien Rock: The Rock 'n' Roll Extraterrestrial Connection, Palmer said of writing the track, "I didn't give much thought to it at all. It was like automatic writing." [2]
"She Makes My Day" was released by EMI on 7-inch vinyl in the UK, Europe, Australia and the US. A 12-inch vinyl version was released in the UK and Spain, while a CD edition was also issued in the UK and Japan. All editions featured the B-side "Disturbing Behaviour", except the US and Japanese releases. The US release featured "Casting a Spell" as the B-side, and "Change His Ways" for the Japanese release. All three B-sides appeared on Heavy Nova. [1]
A music video was filmed to promote the single. It received medium rotation on MTV. [3]
Upon release, Billboard listed the song as a recommended single under the "Pop" category and described it as a "lilting, easy-paced rock ballad". [4] James Masterton, in his 2015 book The Top 40 Annual 1988, described the song as a "smouldering Sinatra-esque slow jazz single". [5] In a retrospective review of Heavy Nova, Terry Staunton of Record Collector believed the song was an "intricately layered ballad" and "arguably the sweetest few minutes in his entire catalogue". [6]
7-inch single
7-inch single (US release)
12-inch single
CD single (UK release)
CD single (Japanese release)
Chart (1988–1989) | Peak position |
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Australia (ARIA) [7] | 9 |
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100) [8] | 22 |
Ireland (IRMA) [9] | 6 |
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [10] | 57 |
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [11] | 47 |
UK Singles (OCC) [12] | 6 |
Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | Ref. |
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Europe | 3 October 1988 | 7-inch vinyl | EMI | [7] |
Japan | 1 March 1989 | Mini-CD | [13] |