"Now and Forever (You and Me)" is a hit song written by

David Foster David Walter Foster (born November 1, 1949) is a Canadian musician, composer, arranger, record producer and music executive who chaired Verve Records from 2012 to 2016. He has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations. His music career spans mor ...

Randy Goodrum Charles Randolph Goodrum (born July 7, 1947) is an American songwriter, pianist, and producer. Goodrum has written number one songs in each of the four decades since his first number one hit, 1978's "You Needed Me". Goodrum's songs have appeare ...

and

Jim Vallance James Douglas Vallance (born May 31, 1952) is a Canadian songwriter, arranger and producer. He is best known as the songwriting partner of Canadian musician Bryan Adams. Vallance began his professional career as the original drummer and main song ...

and recorded by Canadian

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artist

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. It was aided by a popular

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, filmed in Toronto. The back-up vocal was sung by

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, lead singer for the Pop group Mr. Mister. It was released in January 1986 as the first single from the Gold-certified album '' Something to Talk About''. The cut was Murray's tenth and, so far, final #1 hit on the U.S. Country singles chart and spent six weeks on the

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. It remained for a total of nineteen weeks on the Billboard Country chart. (This was Murray's final 45 to cross over to the U.S. 'Pop' chart.) The song was the last number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs charts by a non-American until fellow Canadian

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Any Man of Mine "Any Man of Mine" is a song co-written and recorded by Canadian country music singer Shania Twain. It was issued to US radio in April 1995 as the second single from her second studio album '' The Woman in Me'' (1995). Twain wrote the song with Rob ...

" reached number one in 1995.

Chart performance

Notable Appearance in Other Media

* This song played during the closing credits of the episode of the American daytime soap opera '' All My Children'' on 24 March 1986. * The song was used for the Sophia and C.C. characters on the American serial '' Santa Barbara''.

References

{{Authority control 1986 singles 1986 songs Anne Murray songs Songs written by David Foster Songs written by Randy Goodrum Songs written by Jim Vallance Song recordings produced by David Foster Capitol Records singles