You're the Reason I'm Living

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"You're the Reason I'm Living"
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Single by Bobby Darin
from the album You're the Reason I'm Living
B-side "Now You're Gone"
ReleasedDecember 31, 1962
Recorded1962
Studio Capitol Studios, Hollywood, California
Genre Country pop [1]
Length2:29
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s) Bobby Darin
Producer(s) Nick Venet
Bobby Darin singles chronology
"I Found a New Baby"
(1962)
"You're the Reason I'm Living"
(1962)
"18 Yellow Roses"
(1963)

"You're the Reason I'm Living" is a 1963 single written and performed by Bobby Darin, [2] from his album of the same name. Musicians on the recording session included drummer Earl Palmer. [3]

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Chart performance

The single was very successful spending 2 weeks at #3 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart beginning March 16, 1963. "You're the Reason I'm Living" peaked at #9 on the Hot R&B Singles chart. [4] In Canada the song reached #11. [5]

Cover versions

References

  1. Burke, Ken (January 1, 1998). "Bobby Darrin". In Knopper, Steve (ed.). MusicHound Lounge: The Essential Album Guide. Detroit: Visible Ink Press. pp. 121–122.
  2. "Cover versions of You're the Reason I'm Living by Bobby Darin | SecondHandSongs". SecondHandSongs.
  3. Scherman, Tony, Backbeat: The Earl Palmer Story, foreword by Wynton Marsalis, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1999
  4. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 145.
  5. "CHUM Hit Parade - February 11, 1963".