which song?

[chic21998]

It goes
#u to me you're everything the sweetest thing that I can sing oh baby, o baby#

then #now you've got the best of me go on and take the rest of me oh baby#

?? I though it was stevie wonder

[defenstrate]

the real thing with
you to me are evertything

[mrknowall]

YOU TO ME ARE EVERYTHING - 26/06/1976
3 weeks at #1 - 11 weeks on chart

Oohh I would take the stars out of the sky for you
Stop the rain from falling if you asked me to
I'd do anything for you, your wish is my command
I could move a mountain when your hand is in my hand

Words could not express how much you mean to me
There must be some other way to make you see
If it takes my heart and soul you know I'd pay the price
Everything that I possess I'd gladly sacrifice

Oh you to me are everything
The sweetest song that I could sing
Oh baby, oh baby
To you I guess I'm just a clown
Who picks you up each time you're down
Oh baby, oh baby
You give me just a taste of love
To build my hopes upon
You know you've got the power girl
To keep me holding on
So now you've got the best of me
C'mon and take the rest of me
Oh baby

Though you're close to me we seem so far apart
Maybe given time you'll have a change of heart
If it takes forever girl then I'm prepared to wait
The day you give your love to me won't be a day too late

Oh you to me are everything
The sweetest song that I can sing
Oh baby, oh baby
To you I guess I'm just a clown
Who picks you up each time you're down
Oh baby, oh baby
You give me just a taste of love
To build my hopes upon
You know you've got the power girl
To keep me holding on
So now you've got the best of me
C'mon and take the rest of me
Oh baby

Oh you to me are everything
The sweetest song that I could sing
Oh baby, oh baby
Oh you to me are everything
The sweetest song that I could sing
Oh baby, oh baby
Oh you to me are everything
The

[jammer]

As stated above the group was The Real Thing.
Allegedly they were buskers in London without a group name and when signed took the old Coke advertising slogan from the sign above spot where they used to busk in Leicester Square.

[SOMMERS]

How spooky that a question about ' The Real Thing' appeared on the same day as the finals of Crufts.
Chris Amoo, who along with his brother Eddie form the nucleus of the band, is also a renowned breeder of Afghan Hounds and in 1987 his dog 'Viscount Grant' won the coverted title of Best In Show at that years Crufts.

[SOMMERS]

You don't get a more credible start to your career than Eddie Amoo; his band, The Chants, made their debut appearance at The Cavern in Liverpool, playing three songs in the middle of a Beatles gig. That was 1962.
Like everyone else in Liverpool, The Chants got a record deal during the Merseybeat explosion of 1963/64, in their case with Pye,By the early 70s The Chants were wedded firmly to the cabaret circuit, and Eddie was looking outside the group to satisfy his creativity. He began writing songs with his younger brother, Chris Amoo, and these songs became the basis of the material performed by Chris' group The Real Thing.
The Real Thing appeared on Opportunity Knocks and Top of the Pops, managed by showbiz legend Tony Hall, were favourites on both sides of the Atlantic - even so they went through a succession of record companies and flop singles before they finally made it. When they did, it was because of a variety of factors. Firstly, David Essex used them as backing vocalists on his 1975 album All The Fun of the Fair, and on his subsequent tour, for which they were also the support act in their own right. Then the rise of disco made the idea of black British bands more acceptable,finally they were given a perfect pop song by writer Ken Gold: 'You To Me Are Everything'.

1976 and Eddie Amoo - who had finally wound up The Chants joined his brother's band at the end of the previous year . The fact that 'You To Me' and some of the subsequent releases were more pop than soul may have typecast the group somewhat unfairly, but there were some heavier records as well; Eddie would particularly like to draw your attention to Four From Eight, their 1977 album that comes close to the socio-soul of their hero Curtis Mayfield. (The 'Eight' in the title refers to Liverpool Eight, the district where the band lived.) It also contains their greatest recorded moment, 'Children of the Ghetto'.

[jammer]

Crikey ....they must have been a lot more interesting than I ever remembered !!!!