(Barry Gibb - Robin Gibb)
USA
Original version
#3 USA #11 UK #1 Sydney #3 Melbourne #5 Brisbane #2 Adelaide #1 Perth #1 NZ
Single on Private Stock, recorded at Criteria Recording Studios, Miami, by Australian singer from Melbourne, previously known as Cheryl Gray. More details at You Made Me What I Am by Cheryl Gray.
Emotion is stylistically influenced by its co-writer and co-producer Barry Gibb of The Bee Gees, who also sang harmonies on the record.
An early Samantha Sang single recorded in London in 1969 had two other ‘songs The Bee Gees gave away’, The Love Of A Woman and Don’t Let It Happen Again, both by Barry & Maurice Gibb. (Single on Parlophone, UK and Atco, USA, produced by Barry Gibb. More details at Joseph Brennan’s Gibb Songs website.)
Further reading: 1. Joseph Brennan’s Gibb Songs (1977) which gives background and session personnel. 2. Samantha Sang biography at Super Seventies Rock Site.
(Barry Gibb - Robin Gibb)
USA
Later version
#10 USA #3 UK #23 Perth
On 2001 album Survivor by contemporary R&B group from Texas featuring foundation member Beyonce Knowles.
(Barry Gibb - Robin Gibb)
USA
Later version
Recorded by Barry and Robin Gibb in 1994 but unreleased until 2001 on Their Greatest Hits: The Record.
Reference: Joseph Brennan’s Gibb Songs (1994).
Further reading:
Review of Their Greatest Hits: The Record by Jose F. Promis at All Music Guide.
Thanks to Terry Stacey for version alert.
(Barry Gibb - Robin Gibb)
USA
Later version
On You Light Up My Life, a 1978 album by the enduring romantic pop and jazz singer (b. 1935). Also on the album is a version of The Bee Gees hit How Deep Is Your Love.
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