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"You Stepped Into My Life"
Single by Bee Gees
from the album Children of the World
A-side"Love So Right"
ReleasedSeptember 1976
Recorded3 February 1976, Criteria Studios
7 May 1976, Quebec, Canada
GenreDisco, funk
Length3:25
LabelRSO
Songwriter(s)Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb
Producer(s)Bee Gees, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson
Bee Gees flipsides singles chronology
"Subway"
(1976) 		"You Stepped Into My Life"
(1976) 		"Lovers"
(1976)

"You Stepped Into My Life" is a song released by the Bee Gees in September 1976 on the album Children of the World.[1] It was also released as the B-side of "Love So Right".[2] Written by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb.

In Canada, this song was chosen as the A-side and its flipside was "Love So Right"[3] In Scandinavia and UK, it released as a double A side single with "Love So Right". Allmusic's Bruce Eder called this funk number as one of the "soul ballads" on the album Children of the World.[4]

Recording

The Bee Gees started to record this song on February 3rd at Criteria Studios in Miami. It was finished on May 7 after they recorded and finished "Can't Keep a Good Man Down" and "Boogie Child" the day before in Le Studio in Quebec.[5]

Musical structure

The first parts of the song features a funky electric and bass guitar beat by Alan Kendall and Maurice Gibb and later joined by Blue Weaver through synthesizers and keyboards.

The song is all about a singer became happy when he met his lover, the singer also tells his painful memory before he met his lover, and described her touch to him as an "ecstasy".[citation needed]

Personnel

Cover versions

"You Stepped Into My Life"
Single by Melba Moore
from the album Melba '78
B-side"There's No Other Like You"
ReleasedSeptember 1978
StudioSigma Sound Studios
GenrePhiladelphia soul, disco
Length4:00 (single version) 5:04 (album version) 7:48 (John Luongo Remix)
LabelEpic
Songwriter(s)Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb
Producer(s)Gene McFadden, John Whitehead, Jerry Cohen
Melba Moore singles chronology
"Standing Right Here"
(1977) 		"You Stepped Into My Life"
(1978) 		"Pick Me Up, I'll Dance"
(1978)

References

  1. ^ Discogs.com. "Bee Gees - Children of the World". Discogs.
  2. ^ Discogs.com. "Bee Gees - Love So Right". Discogs.
  3. ^ Discogs.com. "Bee Gees - You Stepped Into My Life (Canada release)". Discogs.
  4. ^ Eder, Bruce. "Children of the World - Bee Gees". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  5. ^ Joseph Brennan. "Gibb Songs: 1976".
  6. ^ Chicago Tribune 22 October 1978 "Lineup For Listening" by Bob Cooper p.6-15
  7. ^ "McFadden & Whitehead - Billboard". Billboard. May 5, 1979. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  8. ^ Discogs.com. "Melba Moore - You Stepped Into My Life". Discogs.
  9. ^ "Q&A: Melba Moore". 27 June 2018.
  10. ^ "Melba Moore Songs ••• Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography ••• Music VF, US & UK hits charts".
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