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I've Never Been to Me

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album (with the original recitative), and response from local listeners was such as to motivate Shannon, a former Motown employee, to alert Motown president Jay Lasker to the track's hit potential. Lasker located Charlene who, discouraged by the poor performance of her 1977 Motown releases and by the
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episodes in her life, concluding that while she's "been to paradise", she's ultimately failed to find self-fulfillment, expressing this with the line, "I've never been to me." There is also an alternative set of lyrics for the song formatted for a male singer, in which the narrator is an elderly man,
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Hot 100-year-end chart for 1982. The track had even greater impact internationally, attaining No. 1 status in Australia (six weeks), Canada (four weeks), Ireland (three weeks), and the United Kingdom (one week). "I've Never Been to Me" also afforded Charlene a top ten hit in Belgium (Flemish Region)
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s Easy Listening and Canada's Adult Contemporary charts. A modified version of MacGregor's version was sent out to radio stations with the possibly controversial line in the final chorus, "I spent my life exploring the subtle whoring that costs too much to be free", amended to "I thought my heart
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Hot 100 dated March 6, 1982, showed "I've Never Been to Me" by Charlene debuting at No. 84 – already 13 places higher than its 1977 peak. It subsequently rose as high as No. 3 on the Hot 100, where it held for three weeks during May and June, prevented from further chart movement by
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tracks featured on the re-release of "It Ain't Easy Comin' Down" – the followup to the 1982 release of "I've Never Been to Me" – in its UK format (in other territories "It Ain't Easy Comin' Down" featured only the one B-side "If I Could See Myself").
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in Australia, where it held the #1 spot for six weeks. In addition, the song topped the charts in Canada (4 weeks), Ireland (3 weeks) and the United Kingdom. It was also a top ten triumph in Norway, Belgium, New Zealand and the Netherlands and became
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album, made it to No. 96 on the Hot 100 in May 1977 (and No. 40 on AC). The Hot 100 peak of "I've Never Been to Me" in its original formal release without the monologue was No. 97, and while Charlene's preceding two singles had both reached
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label's decision not to release a second album she had recorded, had left the music industry and met and married an Englishman, subsequently accompanying him to his native land and taking a job at a sweetshop in
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The song is best known as lyrically formatted for a female vocalist and as such is addressed to a desperate wife and mother who would like to trade her prosaic existence for the
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The song was listed as the No. 3 worst song of all time in Jimmy Guterman's 1991 book "The Worst Rock n' Roll Records of All Time: A Fan's Guide to the Stuff You Love to Hate."
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destined to die the very next day, begging for a dime for a cup of coffee, addressing a younger man who is "raising hell" the way the old man used to do.
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As Charlene was unable to successfully follow up the success of "I've Never Been to Me" – her only subsequent Hot 100 entry "Used to Be" (a duet with
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LP, the first single, "It Ain't Easy Comin' Down", went to No. 97 in March 1977 (and No. 23 on AC). The following single, "Freddie" from the
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A Spanish language recording of "I've Never Been to Me" entitled "Nunca He Ido A Mi" was recorded by Charlene and was one of two
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When the song was revived in 1982, the version being played on radio was the take with the monologue (from the Prodigal LP
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single version from 1977 (Prodigal, P610018S1). The song was never actually re-recorded by Charlene in 1982.
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Guterman, Jimmy and O'Donnell, Owen. The Worst Rock n' Roll Records Of All Time (Citadel Press, 1991.)
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A music video was made for the song's 1982 reissue. The video was filmed on location at
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entitled "Doch mich selber kenn ich nicht" ("But I do not know myself") for her album
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would wait but I learned too late that it costs too much to be free". Also in 1978,
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Besides Charlene's version, 1977 also saw the release of versions of the song by
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Rees, Dafydd; Lazell, Barry; Jones, Alan (1983). "The Top 100 UK Singles".
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lifestyle the song's narrator has led. The narrator alludes to various
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In February 1978, a mid-tempo recording of "I've Never Been to Me" by
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The earliest version of "I've Never Been to Me" to be released was by
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The Irish Charts – Search Results – I've Never Been to Me"
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poll listed the song as the No. 4 worst song of all time.
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and made popular via a recording by American singer
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Index

I've Never Been To Me
I've Never Been to Me (album)

Single
Charlene
Charlene / Songs of Love
B-side
Genre
Pop
Label
Prodigal
Motown
Songwriter(s)
Ron Miller
Kenneth Hirsch
Producer(s)
Don Costa
Berry Gordy
Charlene
Stevie Wonder
ballad
Ron Miller
Kenneth Hirsch
Charlene
Billboard Hot 100
gold certification
Motown
jet setting
hedonistic
Randy Crawford

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