“How Do I Live” | |||||
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Single by LeAnn Rimes | |||||
A-side | Commitment | ||||
B-side | Extended Mix (original release) Mr. Mig Dance Radio Edit (re-issue) RH Factor Radio Edit (UK) You Light Up My Life | ||||
Released | May 27, 1997 | ||||
Recorded | 1997[1] Glenn Meadows/Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee) Starstruck Studios (Nashville, Tennessee) Barking Dog Studios (Mt. Kisco, New York) KD Studios (Nashville, Tennessee) Curb Studios (Nashville, Tennessee) | ||||
Genre | Pop, country | ||||
Length | 4:25 | ||||
Label | Curb | ||||
Writer(s) | Diane Warren | ||||
Producer | Chuck Howard Wilbur C. Rimes Mike Curb | ||||
LeAnn Rimes singles chronology | |||||
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"How Do I Live" is a song written by Diane Warren. It was originally recorded by LeAnn Rimes in 1997 and shortly afterward by Trisha Yearwood. Both versions were released on May 27, 1997.[2][3]
In the US, Rimes' version peaked at number two and set a record for staying on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for sixty-nine weeks, a record it held for over eleven years before being beaten by Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours" in 2009. It is still the song that has spent the most time in the Billboard Hot 100's top 10. It ranks at number four on Billboard's All Time Top 100, the only single on the top 10 of this list not peaking at number one.[4] It has been certified 3× Platinum by the RIAA for shipments of 3 million copies in the United States, the highest certified country single of that time, to be surpassed twelve years later by "Love Story" from artist Taylor Swift, which has been certified 4× Platinum. The song entered the Top 25 Country singles sales chart on June 21, 1997 and was still there in February 2003, a record 291 weeks (five and half years) later.
Despite only peaking as high as number seven in the UK Singles Chart,[5] Rimes' version of "How Do I Live" spent 34 weeks on the chart, ending up as the 6th best selling single of 1998.
"How Do I Live" was covered by F.I.R. (Faye and Real featuring LeAnn Rimes). F.I.R. invited Rimes to record a portion of the song for their third album Flight Tribe in 2006.[6]
The song has also been performed on the hit show American Idol by Vonzell Solomon in Season 4, Paris Bennett in Season 5, and Meosha Denton in Season 2. It was also part of American Idol Season 2 compilation, sung by Carmen Rasmusen.
In March 2018, over 20 years after the song's release, Rimes released a re-imagined version of the song through EverLe Records. In June of 2018 the song was included on The Biggest Hits of LeAnn Rimes: How Do I Live.
Background[]
The song was originally intended for release as a single for the 1997 action blockbuster Con Air soundtrack.
According to Rimes, Warren wrote the song for her to sing and promised it to Rimes "no matter what". Walt Disney Pictures (a.k.a Walt Disney Studios/The Walt Disney Company), the parent company of Touchstone Pictures, initially chose Rimes' version but later found out it had too much pop feeling over it;[7][8] and, because she was fourteen, it was believed that she was too young.[9] Trisha Yearwood was chosen to re-record the song.[7] Yearwood's version was released on May 27, 1997[3] to country radio and appeared in the film.
When Rimes heard of the release,[7] she quickly released her version on the same day to mainstream pop radio.[2] Due to the controversy, neither Rimes' nor Yearwood's version of the song was included on the soundtrack for the film. The entire soundtrack is devoted to the scores by Trevor Rabin and Mark Mancina.[10]
According to Yearwood, she had no idea of Rimes' recording prior to being approached by Touchstone Pictures to do the song.[11]
The extended version was included on her album You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs.
In 2003, the standard version was released on her Greatest Hits. In 2014, Rimes released a new remix by Cahill on her Dance Like You Don't Give A.... Greatest Hits Remixes album,[12][13] and Cahill released a radio edit of the remix on their official SoundCloud page.[14] In 2015, the standard version was included on her All-Time Greatest Hits album. On March 30, 2018, over 20 years after the single's release, Rimes released a re-imagined version of the song.[15] On June 15, 2018, the song was included on The Biggest Hits of LeAnn Rimes: How Do I Live.
Track listing[]
US single rerelease[2]
US/UK maxi-single/US/UK digital download/vinyl[18][19][20][21][22]
UK single[26]
UK maxi-CD[27]
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UK maxi CD #2[28]
Germany maxi-CD[29]
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Lyrics[]
How do I get through a night without you?
If I had to live without you
What kind of life would that be?
Oh, I, I need you in my arms, need you to hold
You're my world, my heart, my soul
If you ever leave
Well, baby you would take away everything good in my life
And tell me now
How do I live without you?
I want to know
How do I breathe without you if you ever go?
How do I ever, ever survive?
How do I, how do I, oh, how do I live?
Without you there'd be no sun in my sky
There would be no love in my life
There'd be no world left for me
And I, well baby I don't know what I would do
I'd be lost if I lost you,
If you ever leave
Well baby, you would take away everything real in my life
And tell me now
How do I live without you?
I want to know
How do I breathe without you if you ever go?
How do I ever, ever survive?
How do I, how do I, oh, how do I live?
Please, tell me, baby
How do I go on?
If you ever leave?
Well baby, you would take away everything
Need you with me
Baby, don't you know that you're everything good in my life?
And tell me now
How do I live without you?
I want to know
How do I breathe without you if you ever go?
How do I ever, ever survive?
How do I, how do I, oh, how do I live?
How do I live without you?
How do I live without you, baby?
How do I live?
Awards[]
In 1998, for the first time in history, the Grammy Awards nominated two artists for the same song in the same category. Directly following Rimes' performance of the song, Yearwood won the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.[30][31][32] Yearwood also performed the song at the Country Music Association for which she won the 1997 award for Female Vocalist of the Year.[33] Yearwood also won the 1997 Academy of Country Music Award for Top Female Vocalist.[34]
The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, but lost to "My Heart Will Go On" from the film Titanic.[35] Yearwood performed the song at the award ceremony. The song was also nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song, losing to "the entire song score" of The Postman. It is one of only three songs to be nominated for both awards, the others being "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing," from Armageddon (also by Warren) and "Life in a Looking Glass," from That's Life! (music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Leslie Bricusse), neither of which won either award.
Credits and personnel[]
Credits for LeAnn's version are adapted from the liner notes of the UK version of Sittin' on Top of the World.[36]
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Notes/Trivia[]
- The original release of the US two-tracked CD single, featuring the standard and extended mix of the song, does not credit Mike Curb as producer, while the re-issue with the Mr. Mig Dance Radio Edit does.
- The reissued two-tracked version of the US CD single uses the exact same cover and catalogue number and credits the extended mix on the back instead of the Mr. Mig Dance Radio Edit while the CD itself credits the standard version as the "Film Mix" though Rimes' recording wasn't used in the film.
- While the song has been credited as single from You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs by Curb Records, Wikipedia, some books and compilation albums. This is actually false as the extended version is the only version on the album. The standard version was not released on an album until Rimes' first greatest hits album in 2003 and again in 2015 on her All-Time Greatest Hits album. The standard version would be released again in 2018 on The Biggest Hits of LeAnn Rimes: How Do I Live. When the song was originally released, it was not originally promoted as a single from the album but because of the extended version being included on You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs, this would happen in later years, despite the fact the song was originally supposed to be a single from Con Air but due to the controversy with Disney/Touchstone and having Trisha Yearwood record the song, her rendition being featured in the film and release as a single, this did not come to pass when Curb rushed to release Rimes' rendition to compete with Yearwood's due to Disney/Touchstone's decision.
- This single would start a long friendship between Rimes and songwriter Diane Warren. Since this single's release Rimes has recorded nine other songs written by Warren, five, including this song, of which have been released as singles by Rimes and seven that have appeared on various soundtracks and one that was not ever released as a single.
Alternate covers[]
References[]
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