"It Might Be You" is a song with music written by Dave Grusin, and lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman. It was performed by singer/songwriter Stephen Bishop in the 1982 film Tootsie starring Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange. The song was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1983.

"It Might Be You"
Side A of the US single
Single by Stephen Bishop
from the album Tootsie Soundtrack
B-side	"Metamorphosis Blues" (It Might Be You)
Released	January 1983 (North America) May 30, 1983 (International)
Recorded	November 1982
Genre	Soft rock adult contemporary
Length	4:17
Label	Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)	Dave Grusin Alan & Marilyn Bergman
Producer(s)	Dave Grusin
Stephen Bishop singles chronology
"Animal House" (1978) "It Might Be You" (1983) "Unfaithfully Yours (One Love)" (1984)
Music video
Listen to "It Might Be You" (Official Music Video) on YouTube

Bishop's recording peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on May 7, 1983, and spent eight weeks in the Top 40, becoming his final Top 40 song to date. It also spent two weeks at No. 1 on the U.S. adult contemporary chart in April the same year.[1]

Chart performance

Personnel

• Stephen Bishop - vocals
• Dave Grusin – electric piano, acoustic piano
• George Doering, Paul Jackson Jr., Mitch Holder - guitar
• Abraham Laboriel - bass
• Ian Underwood - synthesizer
• Carlos Vega - drums
• Steve Foreman - percussion
• Becky Porter, Billy Phedford, Marva Holcolm, Paulette Brown - backing vocals

Notable cover versions

• In 1995, Roberta Flack recorded the song for use in the Forest Whitaker-directed film, Waiting to Exhale. The song appears in the film, but not on the film's soundtrack album and appearing instead on her own Roberta.
• Filipino singer Erik Santos also revived and covered the song as a duet with Marinel Santos in 2003 and it was used as the theme song of the Philippine drama series, It Might Be You.
• In 2013, the song appeared over the closing credits of the film The Pretty One, covered by K A R Y Y N and Julian Wass.[11] The Pretty One shares with Tootsie the theme of a person assuming a different identity.
• In October 2015, Filipino singer and actor Michael Pangilinan covered the song and it was used as the theme song of the movie Everyday I Love You.

See also

• List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1983 (U.S.)

References

• Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)

External links

• Listen to "It Might Be You" on YouTube

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