You're the One (The Oak Ridge Boys song)

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"You're the One"
Single by The Oak Ridge Boys
from the album Y'all Come Back Saloon
B-side "Morning Glory Do"
Released December 3, 1977
Genre Country
Length2:59
Label MCA
Songwriter(s) Bob Morrison
Producer(s) Ron Chancey
The Oak Ridge Boys singles chronology
"Y'all Come Back Saloon"
(1977)
"You're the One"
(1977)
"I'll Be True to You"
(1978)

"Y'all Come Back Saloon"
(1977)
"You're the One"
(1977)
"I'll Be True to You"
(1978)

"You're the One" is a song written by Bob Morrison, and recorded by American country music group The Oak Ridge Boys. It was released in December 1977 as the second single from the album Y'all Come Back Saloon . The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1]

Bob Morrison (songwriter)

Robert Edwin Morrison is an American country songwriter based in Nashville. More than 350 of his songs have been recorded. His most successful compositions are the Grammy-winning Kenny Rogers song, "You Decorated My Life" and the Grammy-nominated "Lookin' for Love," the theme song for the 1980 John Travolta film, Urban Cowboy, recorded by Johnny Lee. Morrison was ASCAP's "Country Songwriter of the Year" in 1978, 1980, 1981 and 1982 and was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2016.

The Oak Ridge Boys band that plays country music

The Oak Ridge Boys are an American country and gospel vocal quartet. The group was founded in the 1940s as the Oak Ridge Quartet. They became popular in southern gospel during the 1950s. Their name was changed to the Oak Ridge Boys in the early 1960s, and they remained a gospel group until the mid-1970s, when they changed their image and concentrated on country music.

<i>Yall Come Back Saloon</i> album by The Oak Ridge Boys

Y'all Come Back Saloon is a 1977 album by American vocal quartet The Oak Ridge Boys, and the group's first country music album.

Contents

Chart performance

Chart (1977-1978)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 2
Canadian RPM Country Tracks1

Other Renditions

Glen Campbell recorded a version in 1973 which influenced the Oak Ridge Boys' rendition. The song was adapted twice - once by Hovie Lister and the Statesmen Quartet in 1974 with gospel-themed verses, and by the American Broadcasting Company in 1978 into their "We're The One" advertising campaign with a more 70's pop style, frequently featuring their network stars lip-syncing the song.

Glen Campbell American musician, songwriter, actor

Glen Travis Campbell was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, television host, and actor. He was best known for a series of hit songs in the 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting a music and comedy variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television, from January 1969 until June 1972. He released over 70 albums in a career that spanned five decades, selling over 45 million records worldwide, including twelve gold albums, four platinum albums, and one double-platinum album.

American Broadcasting Company American broadcast television network

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building.

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 251.
  2. "The Oak Ridge Boys Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
Preceded by
"Out of My Head and Back in My Bed"
by Loretta Lynn
RPM Country Tracks
number-one single

February 25, 1978
Succeeded by
"To Daddy"
by Emmylou Harris