![]() ![]() And I happened to run into LeAnn Rimes, who had just won the Grammy for Best New Artist, at a restaurant and I told her, I wrote this song, do you want to demo it?” So she went back and recorded it, did a video, and spent all this money. But there were I think, 200 other songs in the at that time for that movie. And I wrote for the movie, and I played it for Jerry Bruckheimer. I remember getting in a lot of trouble because there were two versions of it. Finally, the single held the record as the top-selling country single until 2008, finally beaten by Taylor Swift’s “Love Story”.īoth Rimes and Yearwood’s versions of the song were nominated for Grammy’s Best Country Female Vocal Performance in 1998, the first time that two separate artists were nominated for the same song at the same time. It is Billboard’s All Time Top 100 #4, the only single amongst the top 10 of those that never hit #1. It broke another set of records for being in the Billboard Hot 100 top 5 for 25 consecutive weeks (a record it held until 2017), being in the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 for 32 consecutive weeks (also broken in 2017) and Billboard Hot 100 top 40 for 62 consecutive weeks (which it still holds). ![]() In the U.S., this version peaked at #2 and stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a record breaking 69 weeks, a record held until 2008. The extended mix was also included in her album You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs released later that year. When Rimes' father/manager Wilbur Rimes found out this was going to happen, he directed the release of Rimes' version as a single with an extended version as the B side on the same day. Apparently, though, Walt Disney Pictures told Touchstone Pictures, producers of the film, that Rimes was too young for the song’s content (she was 14 at the time) and her version was too “pop”, so directed a re-record of the song with Trisha Yearwood that appeared in the film and was released as a single on May 27, 1997. By Rimes account, Warren had promised the song to her and wrote it for her. ![]() This song was written by Diane Warren for the soundtrack of 1997’s blockbuster Nicholas Cage film “Con Air”. ![]()
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