Turn Your Love Around

About Turn Your Love Around

"Turn Your Love Around" is a pop/R&B single by George Benson. The song was written by Grammy winners Bill Champlin of Chicago, Steve Lukather of Toto and producer and guitarist Jay Graydon to help fill out Benson's 1981 greatest hits album, The George Benson Collection. The song won a Best R&B Song Grammy Award at the 25th Grammy Awards in 1983 for Champlin, Graydon, and Lukather as its co-writers. "Turn Your Love Around" reached number one on the soul singles charts and number five on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts in early 1982, as well as the top ten on the jazz chart. It is ranked as the 27th biggest hit of 1982. In Canada, the song spent two weeks at number 10. The inspiration for the song came to Graydon in the bathroom. He explained to Songfacts, "'Turn Your Love Around' was a gift, and it's the gift that keeps giving. I was in the bathroom when I came up with the melody, and I was sitting down, if you get my drift. Well, I got off the can as fast as I could and got to a cassette machine so I wouldn't forget it. George Benson was coming in town Tuesday, so I had four days to come up with a song for The George Benson Collection. And I was gettin' nothing. And then bang! I just came up with this melody for the chorus when I was in the bathroom."The song was one of the first pop hits to use a Linn LM-1 drum machine, programmed by the session drummer Jeff Porcaro. more »

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2012

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You've got the love 
You've got the power 
But you just don't understand 
Girl, you've been charging by the hour 
For your love 

I'm tryin' to show how much I love you 
Still believe in romance 
You're taking way too many chances 
With my love 

I remember when you used to be 
The talk of the town 
All you get is lonely 

Turn your love around 
Don't you turn me down 
I can show you how 
Turn your love around 

Without the woman I can make it 
But I need the girl to stay 
Oh, don't you let the lady take it all away 
When the woman needs a taste of yesterday 
But you stay at home 
All they get is lonely 

Turn your love around 
Don't you turn me down 
I can show you how 
Turn your love around 

Oh, girl you know me 
I'm alone until you show me 
That you're still in love with me 
We're gonna make it 
We're gonna take it 
Back where we belong 

Turn your love around 
Don't you turn me down 
I can show you how 
Turn your love around 

Turn your love around (This time the girl became a woman)
Don't you turn me down (Every woman needs a man)
I can show you how (I love the girl, I love the woman)
Turn your love around 

Turn your love around (This time the girl became a woman)
Don't you turn me down (Every woman needs a man)
I can show you how (I love the girl, I love the woman)
Turn your love around 

Turn your love around (This time the girl became a woman)
Don't you turn me down (Every woman needs a man)
I can show you how (I love the girl, I love the woman)

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George Benson

George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is a ten time Grammy Award winning American musician, whose production career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. more »

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