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"You'll Accomp'ny Me" is a song written and recorded by American rock singer Bob Seger. It appears on his album Against the Wind.[1]

"You'll Accomp'ny Me"
Single by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
from the album Against the Wind
B-side	"Betty Lou's Gettin' Out Tonight"
Released	July 1980
Studio	Criteria (Miami)
Genre	Soft rock, country rock
Length	4:00 (album version) 3:36 (single version)
Label	Capitol
Songwriter(s)	Bob Seger
Producer(s)	Punch Andrews, Bob Seger
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band singles chronology
"Against the Wind" (1980) "You'll Accomp'ny Me" (1980) "The Horizontal Bop" (1980)

Content

The song is in the key of E major with a main chord pattern of A–E.[2]

History

It reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100.[3]

An entry in the Encyclopedia of Classic Rock describes the song as "forecast[ing] his career direction by crossing over onto Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart".[4] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic wrote in a review of Against the Wind that "the record really starts to kick into high gear with 'You'll Accomp'ny Me,' a ballad the equal of anything on its two predecessors."[5] Jim Harrington of The Mercury News selected "You'll Accomp'ny Me" as one of Seger's 10 best songs and as his "best love song."[6] Billboard Magazine said that it "starts out as a melodic ballad and gains almost in- spirational momentum" by the end.[7] Cash Box called it a "genteel mid-tempo romance," stating that "drum and woodblock set the rhythm, but piano and swelling organ provide the passion."[8]

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Seger's 1994 Greatest Hits compilation.[9]

• Bob Seger – lead vocals, acoustic guitar

The Silver Bullet Band

• Chris Campbell – bass
• David Teegarden – drums

Additional musicians

• Ginger Blake – background vocals
• Sam Clayton – percussion
• Laura Creamer – background vocals
• Linda Dillard – background vocals
• Bill Payne – piano, organ, synthesizer

Chart performance

Chart (1980)	Peak position
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary[10]	23
Canadian RPM Top 100	8
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[11]	14
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	8

Other versions

Country music artist Frankie Ballard covered the song for his 2016 album El Río, and it was released to country radio in February 2017.[12] The song charted at number 57, becoming Ballard's lowest-peaking single of his career.

French-Canadian Folk singer Anna McGarrigle wrote a French-language version of the song titled "Tu Vas M'Accompaneger". She performed it regularly at concerts during the 1980s,[13] and it was included on Kate and Anna McGarrigle's 1982 album Love Over and Over.[14]

Christine Albert included a version of the song where she altered between Bob Seger's original lyrics and Anna McGarrigle's French translation on her album Texafrance in 2008.[15]

References

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