"Turn Your Love Around" is a

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. The song was written by Grammy winners

Bill Champlin William Bradford Champlin (born May 21, 1947) is an American singer, musician, arranger, producer, and songwriter. He formed the band Sons of Champlin in 1965, which still performs today, and was a member of the band Chicago from 1981–2009. ...

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of Toto and producer and guitarist Jay Graydon 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

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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 Linn LM-1 drum machine, programmed by the session drummer

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Personnel

– lead vocals * Jay Graydon – guitar, synthesizer, arrangements * Jai Winding – acoustic piano,

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- piano melody *

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– synthesizer *

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– synthesizer bass *

– Linn LM-1 drum programming * Gary Herbig – saxophone, flutes *

Bill Reichenbach Jr. William Frank Reichenbach Jr. (born November 30, 1949) is an American jazz trombonist and composer. He is the son of Bill Reichenbach, who was the drummer for Charlie Byrd from 1962 to 1973. He is best known as a session musician for television, ...

– 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 abilities ...

– trumpet *

Jerry Hey Jerry Hey (born 1950) is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, horn arranger, string arranger, orchestrator and session musician who has played on hundreds of commercial recordings, including Michael Jackson's ''Thriller'', '' Rock with You'' ...

– trumpet, horn arrangements *

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

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Year-end charts

"Turn Your Love Around" reached number one on the soul singles charts and number five on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles charts in early 1982, as well as the top ten on the jazz chart. It is ranked as the 27th biggest hit of 1982. In

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, the song spent two weeks at number 10.

Cover versions

*A version of "Turn Your Love Around" by Tony Di Bart was released in 1996.

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.

References

External links

* *"Turn Your Love Around"

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