You Light Up My Life Theme Song

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Almost everyone living in this planet formed a strong affinity to watching movies. We all have been consumed inside the seats of a cinema, reveling on the greatness of the actors gilded on the silver screen, savoring the well-thought of story and relate to whichever movie character we can. Aside from absorbing all of the cheesy lines, the impressive technologies used and the different perspectives thrown in between the scenes, we are also suckers for the movie’s official theme song. Whilst many regard theme songs as nothing but avenues to reap more money (in the end of movie and song producers that is), we must not discount the fact that it would not have an official award to be given at the Oscar’s or the Grammy’s just for nothing. Despite the fact that you might have forgotten all the …show more content…

They have meted a wide stretch of audience through album sales, track streams and number of minutes played on-air, making them the cream of the crop out of the extensive cistern of theme songs that’s ever known to humanity.



It might come-off as a surprise but the best movie theme song to have stayed the longest in the illustrious Billboard Hot 100 Charts would be Debby Boone’s You Light Up My Life. Used for the movie with the same title, it’s originally sang by Kasey Cisyk and remade by Pat Boone’s daughter. The soulful and heartfelt way of singing this ballad made it stay as the number 1 track for 10 consecutive weeks, grabbed an Oscar statuette and tied with Barbra Straisand’s Evergreen for Grammy’s Best Original Soundtrack.



Quite expectedly, also grabbing the top choice would be the timeless duet of Diana Ross and Lionel Richie for the song Endless Love. Brooke Shields starred on the movie with the same title as the official theme song, and this duet have stayed for a longish 27 weeks on the charts, tagging it as the best duet hit of all

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