Debby Boone version "You Light Up My Life" Cisyk later retained a lawyer and sued Brooks for the fees she had earned for her work on the record and for credit on the soundtrack, which she later received. Joe told me exactly how to sing it and imitate every inflection from the original recording." in an interview with Entertainment Weekly Magazine. Brooks didn't want to pay to re-record the piano and orchestra again." In 2003, Boone admitted, "I had no freedom whatsoever. Īccording to Rackowicz, "Besides wanting Boone to copy Kacey's iconic hit reading of his songs, Brooks needed to cover up Kacey's vocal leakage in the microphones in the piano recorded at the original demo session on which was overdubbed the orchestral track used in the film. In a 2013 biographical essay about Cisyk, Cisyk's second husband, Ed Rakowicz (who worked as a sound engineer, but not for this song), wrote that songwriter Brooks was initially pleased with Cisyk's recording of the song with orchestra (and her version appeared in the movie and soundtrack) but "tried to evade payment by false promises and by asking her to be an incidental actor in his film, implying huge rewards yet to come." Rackowicz claimed that Brooks made improper advances toward Cisyk, that after being rebuffed, he refused to speak directly to her again, and that he continued to evade payments to her while commissioning another recording with Debby Boone. "You Light Up My Life" (Original Cast) - 3:29Ĭhart performance (Original Cast single) Chart (1977)."You Light Up My Life" (Instrumental) - 3:02.Brooks also released an instrumental version of the song from the soundtrack as a promotional single, but that version failed to chart.įollowing the success of Boone's version, the song earned Brooks a Grammy Award for Song of the Year, an Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) award. 17 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, it never included Boone's hit single version of the song.Ĭisyk's single was credited to "Original Cast", not to Cisyk herself, and even though Brooks is listed on the A-side of the single, the "Original Cast" B-side charted on the Billboard Hot 100 and only reached No. Although the soundtrack album was certified Gold, peaking at No. Then later it was released as a single to bolster sales of the soundtrack album after Debby Boone included her version on her first solo album (also titled You Light Up My Life). Walter G.Cisyk's original soundtrack recording was included in the film's soundtrack album. The I Heart Revolution: With Hearts as One (3) The Platinum Collection Volume 2: Shout to the Lord 2 (1) The Platinum Collection Volume 1: Shout to the Lord (1)Įxtravagant Worship: The Songs of Miriam WebsterĮxtravagant Worship: The Songs of Darlene Zschech (1)Įxtravagant Worship: The Songs of Miriam Webster (2) Note: Songs from the (non-English) Hillsong Ukraine albums are not listed.Īll Things New (Alternate Version) Įxtravagant Worship: The Songs of Darlene Zschech (4) If they are the same number, it means they are the same recording. A number in brackets after the album name indicates the version number of that song in chronological order. If a particular song is on more than one album, all albums are listed alphabetically. A number in brackets after the song title means that there have been different songs with the same name. Italicised album names indicate an instrumental album. Italicised song titles indicate an instrumental recording. Since they started releasing recordings in 1992, they have published and recorded hundreds of songs on over 50 albums, mostly under their own label, Hillsong Music.īelow is a list of songs arranged alphabetically by title. The Hillsong Church started in Australia and from there spread as a Pentecostal movement. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) JSTOR ( August 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message). Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "List of Hillsong songs" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.
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