"Look What You've Done to Me" is a song recorded by Boz Scaggs for the film Urban Cowboy. It was written by Scaggs and David Foster, and produced by Foster and Bill Schnee. The song reached No. 14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 the week of October 25, 1980, No. 13 on the Cash Box Top 100, reached No. 30 in Canada and went to No. 3 on the US Adult Contemporary chart. The song reflects on a broken romance as depicted in the film.
Charlie Puth covered the song at David Foster's 75th Birthday Concert held at The Hollywood Bowl on November 3, 2024.
Background The song features the Eagles on background vocals and instrumentation by Don Felder on guitar and members of Toto and David Foster on keyboards. Two versions of the song were released. The more widely available version of the song (as released on Scaggs' greatest hits compilations) places more emphasis on the Eagles' background vocals, plus additional background vocal stylings by Scaggs towards the end of the song. The version as heard in the Urban Cowboy film (as well as its soundtrack) replaces the Eagles' vocals with a female chorus.
According to comments made by both Scaggs and Foster on the television special (and subsequent DVD) Hit Man: David Foster and Friends, the song was written and recorded in one night after the studio called asking the duo to write a song for the scene, informing them the scene was to be filmed the following day, and the track needed to be on a courier plane the following morning.
Foster provided a bit more of the backstory on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Season 3, Episode 3, titled "Don't Sing for Your Supper", as his then-wife Yolanda was a cast member. Foster said that Scaggs wasn't happy with any of the music he played that evening until the night was almost over. When Foster played the intro chords that became the trademark beginning of the song, Scaggs said, "That's it."
Chart performance
Weekly charts Chart (1980) Peakposition U.S. Cash Box Top 10013
Year-end charts Chart (1980) PositionU.S. Billboard Hot 100102U.S. Cash Box Top 10083
Personnel Original version musicians: Boz Scaggs – lead vocals David Foster – keyboards, string and horn arrangements Don Felder – guitar Steve Lukather – guitar Mike Porcaro – bass Jeff Porcaro – drums Glenn Frey – backing vocals Don Henley – backing vocals Timothy B. Schmit – backing vocals
Urban Cowboy version musicians: Boz Scaggs – lead vocals David Foster – keyboards, string arrangements Steve Lukather – guitar Mike Porcaro – bass Jeff Porcaro – drums Paulette Brown – backing vocals Venetta Fields – backing vocals Julia Tillman Waters – backing vocals Oren Waters – backing vocals
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