is the 19th single by Japanese singer

Yōko Oginome , married name , is a former pop idol, actress and voice actress, who gained popularity in the mid-1980s. Her fans often call her Oginome-chan. Her husband is Ryuso Tsujino. Career Oginome spent most of her elementary and junior high years ...

, released on September 27, 1989 by

Victor Entertainment is a subsidiary of JVCKenwood that produces and distributes music, movies and other entertainment products such as anime and television shows in Japan. It is known as JVC Entertainment in countries where Sony Music Entertainment operates the RC ...

. It is a Japanese-language cover of the song of the same title by

James Christian James Christian is an American musician and songwriter who is perhaps best known for being the frontman of the band House of Lords. Career Christian began his musical career in the early 1970s, playing for various bands in the Connecticut club ...

, with lyrics by

Masao Urino is a Japanese lyricist, screenwriter, script writer, and film director. He has written lyrics for many musical groups and individual musician, artists, sometimes under the pen name, pseudonym . After graduating from Tochigi Prefectural Ashikaga ...

Background and release

Prior to Oginome's version, "You're My Life" was first covered by Miyoko Yoshimoto in her 1987 album ''Yesterday's''. Oginome's version peaked at No. 10 on

Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that ...

's singles chart, becoming her last top-10 hit in her career. It also sold over 59,000 copies. The song earned Oginome the Gold Award at the

31st Japan Record Awards The 31st Annual Japan Record Awards took place at the Nippon Budokan in Chiyoda, Tokyo, December 31, 1989, starting at 7:00PM JST. The primary ceremonies were televised in Japan on TBS. Award winners *Japan Record Award: **Wink for " Samishii N ...

, the Best Hit Song Award at the 1989

FNS Music Festival is an annual music show held among the Fuji Network System and Fuji Television since 1974. The program originated as a song contest to celebrate Fuji TV's 15th anniversary. It is commonly known as FNS, however it has no official short name. ...

, the Excellence Award at the 15th NTV Music Festival, and the Best Talent Award at the 15th All Japan Kayo Music Festival. Oginome performed the song on the 40th ''

Kōhaku Uta Gassen , more commonly known simply as ''Kōhaku'', is an annual New Year's Eve television special produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. It is broadcast live simultaneously on television and radio, nationally and internationally by the NHK net ...

'' in 1989, making her third appearance on

NHK , also known by its Romanization of Japanese, romanized initialism NHK, is a Japanese public broadcasting, public broadcaster. It is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television licence, television license fee. NHK ope ...

's New Year's Eve special. The song was also used as the theme song of the TBS drama special , which also starred Oginome.

Track listing

Charts

References

External links

* * * {{Authority control 1989 singles Yōko Oginome songs Songs in Japanese Japanese television drama theme songs Songs with lyrics by Masao Urino Victor Entertainment singles