You and Me (Alice Cooper song)

"You and Me"
"You and Me"
Single by Alice Cooper
from the album Lace and Whiskey
B-side	"It's Hot Tonight"
Released	April 1977 (US) July 22, 1977 (UK) ;
Genre	Soft rock
Length	5:09 (album version); 3:25 (single edit);
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Songwriter(s)	Alice Cooper, Dick Wagner
Producer(s)	Bob Ezrin
Alice Cooper singles chronology

"You and Me" is a song by Alice Cooper, released in 1977 as the lead single from his album Lace and Whiskey. The song is a soft rock ballad, reaching number nine on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number eight on the Cash Box Top 100 in the summer of 1977. The song reached number three in Canada and number two in Australia, where it is ranked as the 13th biggest hit of 1977.

The song turned out to be Cooper's last US top-ten hit until "Poison" twelve years later.

Cooper regularly performed "You and Me" live on his 1977 and 1978 concert tours. He also performed the song on The Muppet Show in 1978,^[3] as a duet with a female monster who turned out to be Miss Piggy.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1977)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)	2
Canadian RPM Top Singles ^[4]	3
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary^[5]	12
France (IFOP)^[6]	45
New Zealand (RIANZ)	21
U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[7]	9
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary^[8]	23
U.S. Cashbox Top 100	8

Year-end charts

Chart (1977)	Rank
Australia	13
Canada	47
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	48
U.S. Cash Box ^[9]	25

References

^ "Great Rock Discography". p. 171.
^ "Alice cooper singles".
^ Ultimate Disney Muppet Show DVD info
^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved October 13, 2016.
^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved October 13, 2016.
^ "Toutes les Chansons N° 1 des Années 70" (in French). InfoDisc. June 17, 1977. Retrieved December 22, 2019.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 192.
^ Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 58.
^ "The Cash Box Year-End Charts: 1977". Cashbox Magazine Inc. Archived from the original on October 28, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2020.

External links

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[1] "Great Rock Discography". p. 171.

[2] "Alice cooper singles".

[3] Ultimate Disney Muppet Show DVD info

[4] "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved October 13, 2016.

[5] "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved October 13, 2016.

[6] "Toutes les Chansons N° 1 des Années 70" (in French). InfoDisc. June 17, 1977. Retrieved December 22, 2019.

[7] Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 192.

[8] Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 58.

[9] "The Cash Box Year-End Charts: 1977". Cashbox Magazine Inc. Archived from the original on October 28, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2020.

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