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"Turn Your Love Around" is a pop/R&B single by George Benson. The song was written by Grammy winners Bill Champlin of Chicago, Steve Lukather 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 25th Grammy Awards 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 Jeff Porcaro.




Personnel


George Benson – lead vocals
Jay Graydon – guitar, synthesizer, arrangements
Jai Winding – acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes
Steve Lukather - piano melody
David Foster – synthesizer
David Paich – synthesizer bass
Jeff Porcaro – Linn LM-1 drum programming
Gary Herbig – saxophone, flutes
Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone
Chuck Findley – trumpet
Jerry Hey – trumpet, horn arrangements
Bill Champlin – backing vocals
Venette Cloud – backing vocals
Carmen Twillie – backing vocals




Charts



"Turn Your Love Around" reached number one on the soul singles chart and number five on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in early 1982, as well as the top ten on the jazz chart. It was ranked as the 27th biggest hit of 1982. In Canada, the song spent two weeks at number 10.




Tony Di Bart version



In 1995 Tony Di Bart recorded a cover version of Turn Your Love Around which appeared on the album Falling for You. Compared to the original, this version is Eurodance-heavy . In addition to the studio album, it is also included on the compilations Dance Now! 14.




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Samples


This song was sampled on the album version of Lil' Kim's "Not Tonight"
Spice 1'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


George Benson - Turn Your Love Around on YouTube
"Turn Your Love Around" Song Review on Allmusic website

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