I Cannot Believe It's True
1983 single by Phil Collins
"I Cannot Believe It's True" | ||||
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Single by Phil Collins | ||||
from the album Hello, I Must Be Going! | ||||
B-side | "Thru These Walls" | |||
Released | April 1983 (US) | |||
Recorded | 1982 | |||
Genre | Pop rock | |||
Length | 5:14 | |||
Label | Atlantic Records (International) | |||
Songwriter(s) | Phil Collins | |||
Producer(s) | Phil Collins, Hugh Padgham | |||
Phil Collins singles chronology | ||||
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Audio | ||||
"Phil Collins - I Cannot Believe It's True (2016 Remaster)" on YouTube | ||||
"I Cannot Believe It's True" is a song by Phil Collins from his second solo album Hello, I Must Be Going!. It was the third US single released from the album and was only released in the US and Canada; internationally it had instead been released as the B-side of "You Can't Hurry Love".
Cash Box noted the "cowbell-like" percussion and "Collins' profound pop tunesmithing."[1]
The song found moderate success on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching #79.
Track listing
U.S. 7" single (Atlantic)
- "I Cannot Believe It's True"
- "Thru These Walls"
U.S. 12" promo single (Atlantic)
- "I Cannot Believe It's True"
- "I Cannot Believe It's True" (live on 19 December 1982 in Pasadena, California at Perkins Palace)[2]
Charts
Chart (1983) | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 79 |
Credits
- Phil Collins – keyboards, drums, vocals, percussion
- Daryl Stuermer – guitars
- John Giblin – bass
- Don Myrick – alto sax solo
- Don Myrick, Louis "Louie Louie" Satterfield, Rhamlee Michael Davis and Michael Harris – Phenix Horns
- Don Myrick, Louis "Louie Louie" Satterfield, Rhamlee Michael Davis, Phil Collins and Peter Newton – Phenix Choir
Live version
- Phil Collins – vocals, Rhodes piano
- J. Peter Robinson – keyboards, vocoder
- Daryl Stuermer – guitar
- Mo Foster – bass
- Chester Thompson – drums
- Don Myrick – alto sax solo
- Don Myrick, Louis "Louie Louie" Satterfield, Rhamlee Michael Davis and Michael Harris – Phenix Horns
References
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Phil Collins songs
- "Thru These Walls"
- "You Can't Hurry Love"
- "I Don't Care Anymore"
- "Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away"
- "Why Can't It Wait 'Til Morning"
- "I Cannot Believe It's True"
- "Sussudio"
- "One More Night"
- "Don't Lose My Number"
- "Take Me Home"
- "A Groovy Kind of Love"
- "Two Hearts"
- "Another Day in Paradise"
- "I Wish It Would Rain Down"
- "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven"
- "That's Just the Way It Is"
- "Do You Remember?"
- "Hang in Long Enough"
- "Do You Remember?" (live)
- "Who Said I Would" (live)
- "Both Sides of the Story"
- "Everyday"
- "We Wait and We Wonder"
- "Dance into the Light"
- "It's in Your Eyes"
- "No Matter Who"
- "Wear My Hat"
- "The Same Moon"
- "True Colors"
- "You'll Be in My Heart"
- "Two Worlds"
- "Strangers Like Me"
- "Son of Man"
- "Can't Stop Loving You"
- "Come with Me"
- "Wake Up Call"/"The Least You Can Do"
- "Look Through My Eyes"
- "No Way Out"
- "(Love Is Like A) Heatwave"
- "Going Back"
- "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
- "Easy Lover"
- "Hero"
- "In the Air Tonite"
- "Home"
- "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"
- "Separate Lives"
- "Somewhere"
- "The Man with the Horn"
- "You Ought to Know..."
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