"You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)" is a song written by former Motown songwriters James Dean and John Glover and popularized by the husband/wife duo of Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr., former members of the vocal group The 5th Dimension. Released from their album, I Hope We Get to Love in Time, it became a crossover success. It spent six months on the charts, soaring to No. 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Soul Singles charts during late 1976 and early 1977. It also reached No. 6 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart and No. 7 on the UK Singles Chart. It would eventually be certified gold, selling over one million copies, and winning the couple a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals in 1977.
Personnel Marilyn McCoo – vocals Billy Davis Jr. – vocals James Jamerson – bass Horace Ott – concertmaster/ arranger
Chart performance
Weekly charts Chart (1976–1977)PeakpositionAustralia KMR21U.S. Billboard Hot 100Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2002, Record Research Inc., 2004, 1U.S. Billboard R&B/Soul1U.S. Billboard Easy Listening6New Zealand5
Year-end charts Chart (1977) RankAustralia 137New Zealand37UK98U.S. Billboard Hot 10027
Other versions
Geri Reischl and Barry Williams performed the song in a 1977 episode of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour. In 1978, Ralph Carter and Janet Jackson performed it in the Season 5 finale of the CBS sitcom Good Times. At the time, Carter and Jackson were 16 and 11 years old, respectively.
References
External links Lyrics of this song