Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.- You Don’t Have to Be a Star

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“You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)”
Single by Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr.
from the album I Hope We Get to Love in Time
B-side“Fool For You”
ReleasedSeptember 1976
GenrePopsouldisco
Length4:41
3:39 (7″ version)
LabelABC Records
Songwriter(s)James Dean, John Glover
Producer(s)Don Davis
Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. singles chronology
“I Hope We Get to Love on Time”
(1976)”You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)
(1976)”Your Love
(1977)

You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)” is a song 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, spending six months on the charts and soaring to number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Soul Singles charts during late 1976 and early 1977. The song also reached #6 on Billboard’s Easy Listening chart and #7 on the UK Singles Chart. It would eventually be certified gold, selling over one million copies, and winning them a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals in 1977.

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