You Belong to Me (The Doobie Brothers song)

Released as the lead single from Simon's seventh studio album, Boys in the Trees (1978), "You Belong to Me" reached the top 10 of the Billboard Pop Singles chart, peaking at No. 6, and remained on the chart for 18 weeks.^[4] It also peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and stayed on the chart for 19 weeks.^[4] At the 21st Annual Grammy Awards in 1979, the track earned Simon a nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.^[5] Cash Box particularly praised the lead and backing vocals and "lilting sax solo."^[6] Record World said it "blends [Simon's] style with The Doobie Brothers' in a sultry, rather dream-like way, and some appropriate sax work adds to the effect."^[7]

One of Simon's biggest hits, "You Belong to Me”, has been featured on many compilations of her work, including the three-disc box set Clouds in My Coffee (1995), the UK import The Very Best of Carly Simon: Nobody Does It Better (1998), the two-disc retrospective Anthology (2002), and the single-disc Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits (2004).^[8] It is also featured in Simon's 1987 HBO concert special Live from Martha's Vineyard and the accompanying Greatest Hits Live (1988). The track is also featured in the romantic comedy films Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)^[9] and Little Black Book (2004).^[10]

In 2009, Simon re-recorded the song, with guest vocalist John Forté, for her album of acoustic performances of many of her past hits, Never Been Gone.^[11]

• Carly Simon – lead vocals, backing vocals
• Richard Tee – Fender Rhodes electric piano
• Cornell Dupree – electric guitar
• Eric Gale – electric guitar
• Gordon Edwards – bass
• Steve Gadd – drums
• David Sanborn – alto saxophone solo
• James Taylor – backing vocals
• Jonathan Abramowitz, Lamar Alsop, Julien Barber, Alfred Brown, Fredrick Buldrini, Paul Gershman, Ted Hoyle, Theodore Israel, Harold Kohon, Jesse Levy, Charles Libove, Guy Lumia, Joe Malin, Yoko Matsuo, Homer Mensch, Kermit Moore, Marvin Morgenstern, Alan Shulman, Mitsue Takayama and Gerald Tarack – strings

7" single^[12]

• "You Belong to Me" – 3:12
• "In A Small Moment" – 3:05

"You Belong to Me" originally appeared on The Doobie Brothers' seventh studio album, Livin' on the Fault Line (1977).^[22] The live version from their 1983 album Farewell Tour would later chart on the Pop Singles chart at No. 79 in August 1983. An edit of the live version appears on the band's 2007 two-disc greatest hits album The Very Best of The Doobie Brothers.

In 1994, American R&B/soul singer Anita Baker re-recorded her version of the song originally recorded for the compilation album Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary (produced by Lenny Kaye) in 1990.^[25] She re-released the track in 1995 as the fourth single from her fifth studio album, Rhythm of Love.^[26] The cover is not to be confused with another song recorded by Baker of the same name (co-written by Terry Britten, Billy Livsey and Graham Lyle), the closing track of her 1988 album Giving You the Best That I Got (also produced by Michael J. Powell).^[27][28]

In 2002, American singer Jennifer Lopez re-recorded her version of the song for her third studio album, This Is Me... Then (2002) as the ninth track on that album, was produced by Cory Rooney and Dan Shea, who produced the majority of the album.^[29] It had a more urban soul sound than Simon's recording, lasting three minutes and thirty seconds. Lopez's version contains an interpolation of "Catch the Beat," written by G. Andrews, K. Nix, Brad Osborne, and T. Ski Valley and performed by T. Ski Valley.