Here I Am (Air Supply song)

"Here I Am" (also titled as "Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You)") is a song written and first recorded by Norman Saleet and released as a single in 1980 on RCA Records. It was recorded the following year by the British/Australian soft rock duo Air Supply and released as the second single from their sixth studio album The One That You Love.

"Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You)"
A-side label of the Australian vinyl single
Single by Air Supply
from the album The One That You Love
B-side"Don't Turn Me Away"
ReleasedAugust 31, 1981
GenreSoft rock
Length3:50
LabelBig Time
Arista (US)
Songwriter(s)Norman Sallitt
Producer(s)Harry Maslin
Air Supply singles chronology
"The One That You Love"
(1981)		 "Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You)"
(1981)		 "Sweet Dreams"
(1981)

Background

"Here I Am" was written by singer-songwriter Norman Saleet who released it as a single in 1980, backed with "This Time I Know It's Real". Both songs appear on Saleet's 1982 sole studio album Here I Am.

In 1981, Air Supply released their version which was a top 5 hit in the US. To prevent confusion, the song was originally released as "Here I Am" on the LP but was re-titled "Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You)" for the release of the single, so as not to be confused with the group's No. 1 hit song "The One That You Love" earlier in the year which contains the lyrics: "Here I am, the one that you love." Lead vocals on "Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You)" were performed by the two vocalists in the group, Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock. Record World described it as an "elegantly harmonized ballad."[1]

Chart performance

Air Supply's version was released as a single in the fall of 1981, and peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in November of that year, remaining in the top 40 for 15 weeks.[2] The song also spent three weeks atop the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.[3]

Charts

Reception

Reviewing a live performance of the song in 2013 for The Paris Review, Robin Hemley described it as sounding "kind of like Every Other Song in the World to Me".[13]

Personnel

See also

References
  1. "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. 19 September 1981. p. 1. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  2. Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  3. Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of No. 1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)
  4. "Forum – ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts – Top 100 End of Year AMR Charts – 1980s". Australian-charts.com. Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
  5. "Image : RPM Weekly". Library and Archives Canada. 17 July 2013.
  6. "Air Supply Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  7. "Air Supply Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
  8. "Cash Box Top 100 12/05/81". Archived from the original on 3 June 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
  9. "Adult Contemporary Songs – Year-End 1981". Billboard. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  10. "Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1981". Archived from the original on 22 October 2016. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
  11. "Top 100 Hits of 1982/Top 100 Songs of 1982". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  12. "Adult Contemporary Songs – Year-End 1982". Billboard. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  13. Hemley, Robin (19 March 2013). "Ululating to Air Supply". The Paris Review. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
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