"In Your Eyes" is a song by American singer

George Benson George Washington Benson (born March 22, 1943) is an American 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 1960s, pla ...

, released as a

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in 1983. It entered the

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on 24 September 1983 and reached a peak position of number 7. The song remained on the chart for 10 weeks. It was written by

Michael Masser Michael William Masser (March 24, 1941 – July 9, 2015) was an American songwriter, composer and producer of popular music. Early life Born to a Jewish family in Chicago to Ester Huff and William Masser, he attended the University of Illinois ...

(music) and

Dan Hill Daniel Grafton Hill IV (born 3 June 1954) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter. He had two major international hits with his songs " Sometimes When We Touch" and "Can't We Try", a duet with Vonda Shepard, as well as a number of other charti ...

(lyrics), and was initially recorded by Hill for his 1983 album ''Love in the Shadows''. It was also covered by

Jeffrey Osborne Jeffrey Linton Osborne (born March 9, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and lyricist. He is the former drummer and lead singer of the American R&B/soul group L.T.D., with whom he began his musical career in 1970. Biography Earl ...

in 1986. Hill would re-record the song in 1993 as a duet with Rique Franks, on the album ''Let Me Show You - Greatest Hits and More''.

Chart history

; George Benson ; Jeffrey Osborne

Other versions

In 1984,

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(formerly known as Chona Velasquez) sang the song as her winning piece in '' Ang Bagong Kampeon''.PEP.ph-Regine Velasquez's struggles documented in Roots to Riches: Retrieved, 2009
/ref> Fifteen years later, she recorded the song for her covers album '' R2K''.

References

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