| "You Are My Love" | |
|---|---|
| Song | |
| Published | 1955 |
| Label | MGM |
| Songwriter(s) | Jimmie Nabbie |
"You Are My Love" is a popular song. It was written by Jimmie Nabbie and was published in 1955.
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional or "folk" music. Art music was historically disseminated through the performances of written music, although since the beginning of the recording industry, it is also disseminated through recordings. Traditional music forms such as early blues songs or hymns were passed along orally, or to smaller, local audiences.
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1955.
The song was written by request by Nabbie for Joni James, for whom it was a major hit. The song was released by MGM Records as catalog number 12066. The song entered the Cash Box magazine best-selling singles chart on October 1, and reached #11, its highest position, on November 19, lasting altogether 16 weeks on the Cash Box best-seller chart. [1] On the Billboard charts, Joni James' record first made the listing on October 22, spending 10 weeks on those charts, reaching #6 on the disk jockey chart, #18 on the best-selling records chart, and #15 on the composite top-100 chart. [2]
Joni James is an American singer of traditional pop music.
MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946 for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films. It soon transitioned to a pop music label which continued into the 1970s. The company also released soundtrack albums of the music for some of their non-musical films as well, and on rare occasions, cast albums of off-Broadway musicals such as The Fantasticks and the 1954 revival of The Threepenny Opera. In one instance, it even released the highly successful soundtrack album of a film made by a rival studio, Columbia Pictures's Born Free (1966).
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere. The results are published in Billboard magazine. Billboard biz, the online extension of the Billboard charts, provides additional weekly charts. There are also Year End charts. The charts may be dedicated to specific genre such as R&B, country or rock, or they may cover all genres. The charts can be ranked according to sales, streams or airplay, and for main song charts such as the Hot 100 song chart, all three pools of data are used to compile the charts. For the Billboard 200 album chart, streams and track sales are included in addition to album sales.
