You Gotta Love Someone

"You Gotta Love Someone"
Single by Elton John
from the album Days of Thunder (soundtrack) and The Very Best of Elton John
B-side"Medicine Man"
Released8 October 1990 (1990-10-08)[1]
Length
  • 4:58 (album version)
  • 4:20 (single version)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Elton John singles chronology
"Club at the End of the Street"
(1990) 		"You Gotta Love Someone"
(1990) 		"Easier to Walk Away"
(1990)

"You Gotta Love Someone" is a song by English musician Elton John, written by John along with Bernie Taupin and released as a single from the Days of Thunder soundtrack in October 1990. The single was also used to promote the Rocket Records 2-CD retrospective The Very Best of Elton John, issued largely in overseas markets excluding the United States, where the more expansive box set To Be Continued... was issued.[2]

Produced by Don Was, "You Gotta Love Someone" and the three other tracks that close disc 4 of To Be Continued... (along with "Made for Me", "Easier to Walk Away" and "I Swear I Heard the Night Talking", the latter of which was released first as a B-side of the single in France), were all recorded in one take each (minus overdubs).[3] The tracks were also purported to be selections for a possible studio album project that was later abandoned.

  1. ^ "New Singles". Music Week. 6 October 1990. p. 39.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–2001. Record Research. p. 128.
  3. ^ Elizabeth Rosenthal, His Song: The Musical History of Elton John.