I Believe in Music (song)

"I Believe in Music"
Single by Mac Davis
from the album I Believe in Music
B-side "Hollywood Humpty Dumpty"
Released August 31, 1971 [1]
Format 7"
Recorded 1970
Genre Pop
Length 3:13
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Mac Davis
Producer(s) The Tokens, Dave Appell
Mac Davis singles chronology
"Beginning to Feel the Pain"
(1971)		 "I Believe in Music"
(1971)		 "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me"
(1972)

"Beginning to Feel the Pain"
(1971)		 "I Believe in Music"
(1971)		 "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me"
(1972)
"I Believe in Music"
Single by Gallery
from the album Nice To Be With You
B-side "Someone"
Released August 1972
Format 7"
Recorded 1971
Genre Pop
Length 2:26
Label Sussex Records
Songwriter(s) Mac Davis
Gallery singles chronology
"Nice to Be With You"
(1972)		 "I Believe in Music"
(1972)		 "Big City Miss Ruth Ann"
(1972)

"Nice to Be With You"
(1972)		 "I Believe in Music"
(1972)		 "Big City Miss Ruth Ann"
(1972)

"I Believe in Music" is a 1972 song by Gallery, written and originally recorded by Mac Davis. It was their second of three singles from their Nice to Be with You album[2] and was the follow-up release to the title track.

"I Believe in Music" reached No. 22 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 13 on the US Cash Box Top 100. It also reached No. 5 in Canada.[3]

Mac Davis's original version had been released as a single a year earlier and made a minor dent in the pop charts (US No. 117). His version reached No. 25 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Chart performance

Mac Davis original
Chart (1971) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 117
US Billboard Adult Contemporary 25
Gallery cover

Other cover versions

"I Believe in Music" has been covered by Helen Reddy, Louis Jordan, Marian Love (#111, 1971; AC #27), Donny Hathaway, B.J. Thomas, Liza Minnelli, Perry Como and Lee Towers.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.45cat.com/record/445456us
  2. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/Gallery-Nice-To-Be-With-You/release/2090034
  3. ↑ http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.4235&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.4235.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.4235
  4. ↑ http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.4235&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.4235.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.4235
  5. ↑ http://www.billboard.com/charts/adult-contemporary/1972-10-21
  6. ↑ CASH BOX Top 100 Singles, November 11, 1972
  7. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.
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