Ken Gold, co-writer/producer
It was early 1976 and Mick Denne and I have been songwriters for rent. I actually wished to work with the Actual Factor, who’d had a few chart entries and had toured and recorded with David Essex – who was big on the time. I believed their singer Chris Amoo had an awesome voice.
I had had a few conferences with their supervisor, Tony Corridor, who mentioned to deliver him something I believed was good. We began engaged on You to Me Are The whole lot and all of it occurred in a short time. Mick got here up with the refrain instantly and the phrases: “Oh, you to me are every thing / The sweetest music that I might sing / Oh child.” As soon as we bought that, we have been off to the races. The majority was written in lower than an hour – melody and phrases. We knew we had one thing actually good. I keep in mind saying to Mick: “I wish to get this over to Tony as fast as I can. I’ll see if he’s within the workplace.”
We have been within the studio – the Roundhouse in London – the very subsequent week. Chris wished to take the melody in his personal route. He mentioned he was attempting to place some soul into it. However sitting up there within the management room, it simply wasn’t working for me and I keep in mind getting very nervous as a result of he was beginning to get a little bit combative. I mentioned: “Actually, Chris, I’d identical to to listen to you sing the melody precisely because it was written.” And that’s what we did. In case you can write a melody that will get into somebody’s head after only one play, then you've gotten one thing individuals can sing.
There's a hook inside the hook on this music. We had the apparent hook melody after which we had: “Oh child, oh child.” On the finish of that, there’s the coda: “So now you’ve bought the most effective of me / Come on and take the remainder of me / Oh child.” It was a neat little bow on the finish of the refrain that tied it into its first half.
I believe the music’s longevity has to do with the sentiment within the lyrics: it’s positively one thing individuals latch on to. Folks usually surprise what was happening in our lives after we wrote it. There actually was nothing – I’d bought married in September 1975 and Mick was unattached. The reality is we have been attempting to seize an excellent lyric that made sense and rhymed. I heard it once more on the radio lately and I bought goosebumps, the identical method as I had many years earlier than. It makes me proud on a metaphysical stage. I can really feel it inside me. It feels wonderful.
Chris Amoo, lead singer of the Actual Factor
I used to be in Soho, London, when Ken Gold walked into our supervisor’s workplace with a reel-to-reel recording machine and a music he had recorded as a demo. I keep in mind pondering that it was actually good – it jogged my memory of Johnny Bristol’s Cling on in There Child. Tony knew that he was listening to a possible hit.
The recording was completed in every week. I bought a white label made, an acetate – these have been information that firms would ship out to golf equipment to get the orders going within the outlets. I took it to a spot in Liverpool the place I used to go, my native hangout. The DJ put it on and the ground stuffed up – with a music that no one knew. At that second, we knew we have been on the button. Quickly I’d stroll round and each radio can be enjoying it.
I used to be in London when Tony phoned me on a Tuesday morning at 9am and mentioned: “Congratulations you’ve come into the charts at quantity 56 and also you’ve bought High of the Pops tomorrow.” I phoned residence and instructed my mum, who was a dressmaker, what materials and magnificence I wished and she or he made 4 outfits for every band member that evening. The opposite guys bought the practice down from Liverpool the subsequent morning and introduced the costumes with them. Mine fitted like a glove. The subsequent month was an awesome journey because the observe went from No 56 to 22 to five to 1.
It modified every thing. We went from being 4 black guys from Toxteth, making a residing as finest we might, to having monetary safety. There are many No 1s which can be OK however individuals neglect them – with You to Me Are The whole lot, the subsequent technology really feel the identical about it because the earlier one. That’s the distinction between a basic and successful. Classics are for ever.
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