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"You & I" is a song from Graham Coxon's sixth studio album, Love Travels at Illegal Speeds. It was released 8 May 2006 as the second single from that album, charting at #39 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2006 in British music). The b-side for the 7" version of the single is a cover of The Jam song "See Saw" that backed "The Eton Rifles" single in late 1979. The b-side for both CD versions of the single, "Click Click Click", was originally available on the Japanese pressing of the album.
"You And I" is a song written by Dennis Wilson, his former wife Karen Lamm-Wilson and close friend Gregg Jakobson. It was released as the eighth track on Dennis Wilson's 1977 début solo album Pacific Ocean Blue. The song was released as a single in the United States with the B-side being "Friday Night". In Europe however, "River Song" was chosen as the A-side and "Farewell My Friend" as the B-side. The single, just as the single in Europe did, failed to chart. The track, as with the rest of the album, was credited as being produced by Dennis Wilson and his close friend Gregg Jakobson. Dennis Wilson sings the lead vocal on this and every other track on the album.
According to Dennis the song "is about Karen and myself, that's it." http://www.danaddington.com/denny/interview.html It's About Time - Dennis Wilson interview with David Leaf
"You and I" is the first and only radio single from Céline Dion's A New Day... Live in Las Vegas album. It was released on May 17 2004.
The music video was filmed by an award-winning director Andrew MacNaughtan in July 2004 and was shot partly in Toronto Pearson International Airport. It premiered two months later.
In October 2004 it was announced that "You and I" would be the theme of Air Canada's new advertising campaign. At the same time the airline unveiled new in-flight service products and new aircraft livery. Dion also recorded a one-minute-long French version of the song called "Mes ailes à moi". Both versions were used in Air Canada's commercials.
Chuck Taylor of Billboard magazine wrote about the song: "The plucky "You and I" is an ideal vehicle to launch a full-scale seasonal assault on the airwaves, with its love-my-man thematics and kinetic, summer-breeze tempo, akin to her signature "That's the Way It Is." Dion dispenses a joyful romp from the mic, sounding fresh and fully at ease, and she riffs just enough to stamp the song with a telltale trademark or two."
The single was a radio hit, topping the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart and Polish RMF FM chart.
On June 19 2007, U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that "You and I" would be her campaign song in her 2008 bid for the Democratic Party nomination for U.S. president. The song was selected as a result of a month-long web campaign to select a theme song.
"You and I" is a pop song, co-written by Ed Johnson, H. Johnson and Mike Peden, and performed by Pop Idol UK series 1 winner Will Young. It appeared on his debut album, From Now On, and was released as his fourth single, along with the track "Don't Let Me Down". It reached number two in the UK Singles Chart and number 27 in Ireland. The double A-side single was released in aid of Children in Need. CD2 included a limited edition poster.
"You and I" was also released as a single (without "Don't Let Me Down") in the Netherlands, where it reached number three.
"You and I" was a duet by Eddie Rabbitt and Crystal Gayle that became a big hit in 1982.
Before 1982, both Eddie Rabbitt and Crystal Gayle had separate solo career in country music. Eddie was known for his country pop songs such as "Drivin' My Life Away," and "I Love a Rainy Night". Gayle, too, was known for country pop crossover hits, such as the worldwide 1977 single "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". In 1982, the two singers joined together to record the song "You and I". When released to the public in 1982, the song became a big country pop crossover hit for both singers, showing to the public they could be just as successful singing duets as they are capable of singing solo too. Both singers, too, gained equal respect for the song.
Although Rabbitt and Gayle had gained equal respect for "You and I," as mentioned above, a story later circulated that the song was actually never intended to be a duet. According to "Big John" Howell, a country music disc jockey from Chicago, Illinois, David Malloy, who produced the record, heard a demo of the song and thought that it would make a great duet and already had two names in mind that he felt would make the song's perfect duet pair - Eddie Rabbitt and Crystal Gayle. Malloy first pitched the song to Rabbitt, who initially passed on it. After Malloy's many attempts, he finally convinced Rabbitt into recording the song, though Malloy never mentioned anything to Rabbitt about a duet and left Rabbitt to believe that it was a solo song. After Rabbitt recorded his vocal track, Malloy then played the song for Crystal Gayle, apparently singing it in the harmony Gayle would eventually sing in the recording. Gayle also passed on the song, but Malloy finally convinced her into recording it by evidently muting Rabbitt's vocals temporarily and leaving Gayle to also believe that it was a solo song. After Gayle recorded her vocal track, Malloy then mixed both Rabbitt and Gayle's vocals together into the master tape.
When Rabbitt and Gayle first heard the final mix, they were both supposedly angry by the results, feeling that Malloy had secretly arranged a duet between the two behind their backs on a song that neither of them had wanted part of in the first place. However, no action was ever taken by either of them against Malloy. The song was then released as a single and became a hit. Then, at the height of the song's popularity, both Rabbitt and Gayle were scheduled to sing their unplanned duet together during a concert at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The two singers had never sung the song together onstage before and were both nervous about how well the performance would go. The performance apparently went smoothly and was well-received by the audience.
In the years since its initial release, "You and I" was named as one of the greatest wedding songs of all time.
"You and I" was also one of 17 number-one hits recorded by Crystal Gayle, and one of 26 number-one hits recorded by Eddie Rabbitt.
In 2005, the song ranked #7 on CMT's 100 Greatest Duets in Country Music. Gayle performed the duet with Raul Malo of The Mavericks since Rabbitt had died in 1998.
"You & I" is the debut single from Australian rock group Drag. The song is a rock song, though has elements of new-wave and electronica also.





