“You To Me Are Everything” was released as a single in 1976 by the British soul group The Real Thing. In an interview last month with the Guardian, Ken Gold, who produced and co-wrote the song, recalled that he and Mick Denne came up with the chorus quickly and wrote the whole song in less than an hour. “We were in the studio – the Roundhouse in London – the very next week,” Gold said, discussing the subsequent recording session. “Chris [the lead singer] wanted to take the melody in his own direction. He said he was trying to put some soul into it. But sitting up there in the control room, it just wasn’t working for me and I remember getting very nervous because he was starting to get a little combative. I said: “Honestly, Chris, I’d just like to hear you sing the melody exactly as it was written.” And that’s what we did. If you can write a melody that gets into someone’s head after just one play, then you have something people can sing.”
This track was the group’s only #1 hit, sitting atop the UK Singles chart for three weeks. The tune begins in C and shifts up to D at 2:41.
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