Debby Boone – You Light Up My Life
One of the biggest recording of all time and the biggest of the 1970s was the title song of the movie You Light up My Life written by Joe Brooks.
Kasey Cisyk recorded the song for the movie, it was lip-synced by Didi Conn. The movie version was released as a single but peaked at Number 60.
Debby Boone, the daughter of the 1950s pop star Pat Boone version and was the top song of the year. Although she has recorded many songs since this her debut song, it was her only Pop Charting record. She had a couple of county hits and now records in the Christian Music genre.
Even though it was not intended by Brooks, the song’s composer, Boone recorded it with a religious spin on the song, singing to God as the one lighting her life.
The song hit number 1 on October 15 and reminded there until mid-December for a then record of 10 weeks. It was bumped from Number 1 by How deep is Your Love by the Bee Gees.