"Turn Your Love Around" is a

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George Benson George Washington Benson (born March 22, 1943) is an American jazz fusion guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He began his professional career at the age of 19 as a jazz guitarist. A former child prodigy, Benson first came to prominence in the ...

. The song was written by Grammy winners

Bill Champlin William Bradford Champlin (born May 21, 1947) is an American singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter. He formed the band Sons of Champlin in 1965, which still performs today, and was a member of the rock band Chicago (band), Chicago from 1 ...

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Steve Lukather Steven Lee "Luke" Lukather (born October 21, 1957) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer, best known as the sole continuous founding member of the rock band Toto. His reputation as a skilled guitarist led to ...

of Toto and producer and guitarist

Jay Graydon Jay Joseph Graydon (born October 8, 1949, Burbank, California) is an American songwriter, recording artist, guitarist, singer, keyboardist, producer, arranger, and recording engineer. He is the winner of two Grammy Awards (in the R&B category) ...

to help fill out Benson's 1981 greatest hits album, '' The George Benson Collection''. The song won a Best R&B Song Grammy Award at the 25th Grammy Awards in 1983 for Champlin, Graydon, and Lukather as its co-writers.

Background

The inspiration for the song came to Graydon in the bathroom. He explained to Songfacts, "'Turn Your Love Around' was a gift, and it's the gift that keeps giving. I was in the bathroom when I came up with the melody, and I was sitting down, if you get my drift. Well, I got off the can as fast as I could and got to a cassette machine so I wouldn't forget it. George Benson was coming in town Tuesday, so I had four days to come up with a song for ''The George Benson Collection''. And I was gettin' nothing. And then bang! I just came up with this melody for the chorus when I was in the bathroom." The song was one of the first pop hits to use a

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, programmed by the session drummer

Jeff Porcaro Jeffrey Thomas Porcaro (April 1, 1954 – August 5, 1992) was an American drummer. He is best known for being the co-founder and drummer of the rock band Toto, but is also one of the most recorded session musicians in history, working on hundr ...

Personnel

– lead vocals *

– guitar, synthesizer, arrangements * Jai Winding – acoustic piano,

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- piano melody *

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– synthesizer *

David Paich David Frank Paich (born June 25, 1954) is an American keyboardist, singer, and songwriter, best known as the co-founder, principal songwriter, keyboardist, and secondary vocalist of the rock band Toto (band), Toto since 1977. He wrote or co-wrot ...

– synthesizer bass *

–

drum programming * Gary Herbig – saxophone, flutes * Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone *

Chuck Findley Charles B. Findley (born December 13, 1947, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania) is an American trumpet player known for his diverse work as a session musician. He also plays other brass instruments such as flugelhorn and trombone. His technical ab ...

– trumpet *

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– trumpet, horn arrangements *

– backing vocals * Venette Cloud – backing vocals * Carmen Twillie – backing vocals

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

"Turn Your Love Around" reached number one on the soul singles chart and number five on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart in early 1982, as well as the top ten on the jazz chart. It was ranked as the 27th biggest hit of 1982. In Canada, the song spent two weeks at number 10.

Tony Di Bart version

In 1995 Tony Di Bart recorded a cover version of Turn Your Love Around which appeared on the album ''Falling for You''. Compared to the original, this version is Eurodance-heavy . In addition to the studio album, it is also included on the compilations ''Dance Now! 14''.

Charts

Samples

*This song was sampled on the album version of Lil' Kim's " Not Tonight" *

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's " The Thug In Me" and on the Japanese 1 million hit song "Da.Yo.Ne." by East End X Yuri in 1994. Mercedes feat. Mr. Serv-On - My Love (1999, No Limit/Priority Records)

References

External links

* *"Turn Your Love Around"

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