The Best of Debby Boone

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The Best of Debby Boone
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Compilation album by Debby Boone
Released 1986
Length29:36
Label Curb
Producer Brooks Arthur, Joe Brooks, Mike Curb, Michael Lloyd
Debby Boone chronology
Choose Life
(1985) Choose Life1985
The Best of Debby Boone
(1986)
Friends for Life
(1987) Friends for Life1987
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The Best of Debby Boone (1986) is the first compilation album for Debby Boone collecting ten tracks from her five secular studio albums released by Curb Records from 1977 to 1981.

Deborah Anne Boone is an American singer, author, and actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life", which spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist the following year. Boone later focused her music career on country music resulting in the 1980 No. 1 country hit "Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again". In the 1980s, she recorded Christian music which garnered her four top 10 Contemporary Christian albums as well as two more Grammys. Throughout her career, Boone has appeared in several musical theater productions and has co-authored many children's books with husband, Gabriel Ferrer.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "You Light Up My Life" (Joe Brooks) [3:35]
    <i>You Light Up My Life</i> (Debby Boone album) album by Debby Boone

    You Light Up My Life (1977) is the first solo album from singer Debby Boone. After the title track reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, Boone needed to quickly assemble her first solo album. The result was a RIAA-certified platinum album. Joe Brooks produced the album after writing and producing the title track.

  2. "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" (Howard Greenfield, Jack Keller) [2:22]
    • 1979 single - first album release
    • No. 48 (Country)
  3. "Baby I'm Yours" (Van McCoy) [2:36]
  4. "God Knows" (Franne Golde, Peter Noone, Allee Willis) [3:25]
    • From Midstream
    • No. 74 (Hot 100), No. 22 (Country), No. 14 (AC)
    <i>Midstream</i> (album) album by Debby Boone

    Midstream (1978) is the second studio album by Debby Boone. The album's title refers to the change in producers "midstream" on the album. The first seven songs were produced by Brooks Arthur; the remaining five songs were written and produced by Joe Brooks who was responsible for Boone's "You Light Up My Life." Brooks' songs were all written for his film, If Ever I See You Again. Another "Midstream" track, "When You're Loved," was one of three songs recorded by Boone for "The Magic of Lassie" soundtrack.

  5. "When You're Loved" (Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman) [3:26]
  6. "Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again" (Debbie Hupp, Bob Morrison) [2:30]
    <i>Love Has No Reason</i> album by Debby Boone

    Unable to approach the success of You Light Up My Life, Debby Boone left Top 40 radio behind in 1980 and turned her career toward Country music with the release of her fourth album, Love Has No Reason. Boone had already established a presence on Country radio prior to the release of this album having placed seven singles, including You Light Up My Life, on Billboard's Country Singles chart. Boone's first album, You Light Up My Life, also reached No. 6 on Billboard's Country Albums chart.

  7. "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" (Howard Greenfield, Jack Keller) [2:24]
  8. "Free to Be Lonely Again" (Diane Pfeifer) [2:46]
  9. "Perfect Fool" (Diane Pfeifer) [2:17]
  10. "I'll Never Say 'Goodbye'" (Theme From The Universal Picture The Promise) (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, David Shire) [4:15]

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