Rick Bonner - 'You To Me Are Everything'

"You to Me Are Everything" is a song by British soul group the Real Thing, released as a single in 1976. Written by Ken Gold and Michael Denne and produced by Gold, "You to Me Are Everything" was the Real Thing's sole number-one single on the UK Singles Chart, spending three weeks at the top in July 1976. The song was re-released ten years later titled the "Decade Remix" which returned the song to the chart in March 1986, reaching number five.
The Real Thing first appeared on the ITV talent show Opportunity Knocks, to which they then acquired a manager, Tony Hall who secured them a recording contract with Pye Records. For their debut single, they recorded "You to Me Are Everything". The song was written by producer Ken Gold together with Micky Denne; Denne came up with the chorus first, and they wrote most of the song in less than an hour. They took the demo of the song to Hall and Chris Amoo, the lead singer of the Real Thing, and the group recorded the song at the Roundhouse studios a week later.
In the United States, two other versions of the song were released at the same time as the version by the Real Thing, by American groups Broadway and Revelation, whose versions were both released the same week, and at one point all three appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts. Although the version by the Real Thing outsold the other two versions, the confusion with the three different versions effectively prevented each other from becoming a hit in the US.
The original release of "You to Me Are Everything" reached number one in the UK and stayed there for three weeks. It peaked at No. 22 in Australia, number 3 in Ireland and number 10 in New Zealand. The original version has been certified gold in the UK for 400,000 single sales.
The song was a minor hit in the US, peaking at number 64 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and number 28 on the Billboard R&B chart.[9]
In 1986, the Decade Remix by DJ Froggy, Simon Harris and KC was released by PRT Records. The remix reached No. 5 in the UK in March.

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Rick you have a beautiful natural voice keep going your music makes people smile 😊 Iam playing my piano tonight to your music 🎶 I wish I lived near where you perform hopefully someday I can fly out you never know.

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Rick, you just seem to find that special something with each song. Never stop ❤️