Right Before Your Eyes

"Right Before Your Eyes"
Single by America
from the album View from the Ground
B-side"Inspector Mills"
ReleasedNovember 1982
RecordedCapitol (Hollywood)
Genre
Length3:47
LabelCapitol Records 5177
Songwriter(s)Ian Thomas
Producer(s)Bobby Colomby
America singles chronology
"You Can Do Magic"
(1982)
"Right Before Your Eyes"
(1982)
"Jody"
(1982)

"Right Before Your Eyes" (popularly known as "Rudolph Valentino") is a song written by Ian Thomas and introduced on the 1977 Ian Thomas Band album Calabash. His version reached #57 in Canada.[1] It was also recorded by America for their 1982 album View from the Ground. The America version of "Right Before Your Eyes" was issued as that album's second single – following up America's Top Ten single "You Can Do Magic" – and rose to #45 on the Billboard Hot 100: the track's Adult Contemporary chart peak was #16.[2] It reached 22 on the Contemporary Adult chart in Canada. "Right Before Your Eyes" was most popular in the Philippines during its release in 1982.

  1. ^ "RPM Top 100 Singles - July 9, 1977" (PDF).
  2. ^ America, "Right Before Your Eyes" chart positions Retrieved May 13, 2013