"Being with You" is a 1981 song recorded by American singer

Smokey Robinson William "Smokey" Robinson Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former record executive director. He was the founder and front man of the Motown vocal group the Miracles, for which he was also chief ...

and is the title track from his Gold-certified album with the same name. The song spent five weeks at No. 1 on the

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chart from March to early May 1981 and reached number two on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, behind "

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" by

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, his highest charting solo hit on the ''Billboard'' pop charts. It also reached number one in the

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. It hit No. 1 on the US ''Cash Box'' Top 100. The track was also a No. 1 hit in the

in June 1981, becoming Robinson's second UK No. 1 single and his first as a solo artist. Very soon after Robinson's English single was released, Motown's subsidiary label Tamla released a Spanish version of the song under the title of "Aqui Con Tigo" (Tamla T 54325F), backed with a bilingual English/Spanish version.

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