"You Stepped into My Life" is a song released by the Bee Gees in September 1976 on the album Children of the World.[2] It was also released as the B-side of "Love So Right".[3] Written by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb.
In Canada, this song was chosen as the A-side and its flipside was "Love So Right"[4] In Scandinavia and UK, it released as a double A side single with "Love So Right". AllMusic's Bruce Eder called this funk number as one of the "soulballads" on the album Children of the World.[5]
The Bee Gees started to record this song on February 3 at Criteria Studios in Miami. It was finished on May 7 after they recorded and finished "Can't Keep a Good Man Down" and "Boogie Child" the day before in Le Studio in Quebec.[6]
Musical structure
The first parts of the song features a funky electric and bass guitar beat by Alan Kendall and Maurice Gibb, and later joined by Blue Weaver through synthesizers and keyboards.
The song is all about a singer became happy when he met his lover; the singer also tells his painful memory before he met his lover, and described her touch to him as an "ecstasy".[citation needed]
Melba Moore recorded a Philly soul version of the song for her 1978 Epic Records album release Melba, produced by McFadden & Whitehead with Jerry Cohen.[7][8][9] The singer and her producers had aimed at scoring Moore a breakout hit with a Bee Gees cover and chose "You Stepped into My Life", the group's own original version being comparatively low-profile.[10] "You Stepped into My Life" did afford Moore a major club hit and became the second and most successful of her two Billboard Hot 100 singles while remaining a top 40 shortfall with a No. 47 peak. The track also reached No. 17 on the Billboard ranking of R&B singles. In 2024, the song was certified platinum for sales of a million copies in the US.[11]
Wayne Newton released his version as a single in 1979 on Aries Records; it reached No. 90 in the US.