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Released on Columbia, also Chop Suey! (System of a Down), Toxicity (System of a Down) and Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People)
Written by Hal David, also Me Against the World (2Pac), I Say a Little Prayer (Aretha Franklin) and A House Is Not a Home (Luther Vandross)
Part of You Light Up My Life, also Too Much, Too Little, Too Late and If You Believe
Written by Archie Jordan, also Christmas at Our House (Barbara Mandrell), A Woman in a Man’s World (Tina Turner) and It’s All I Can Do (Anne Murray)
Worth knowing
Counted from cited credits on fono.
Hal David wrote 172 songs on fono
Hal David’s most frequent co-writer is Burt Bacharach (147 songs together)
Hal David first appears on fono in 1957, 21 years before this song
Credits
All 4 credits
- Written by
- Archie Jordan and Hal David
- Part of
- You Light Up My Life
- Released on
- Columbia
- Written by
- Archie Jordan and Hal David
- Part of
- You Light Up My Life
- Released on
- Columbia
Connected by credits
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Same writer: Hal David
Same writer: Archie Jordan
Same label: Columbia
Same release: You Light Up My Life
Same writer: Hal David
Same writer: Archie Jordan
Same label: Columbia
Same release: You Light Up My Life
Elsewhere
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1MusicBrainz It Was Almost Like a Song was written by Archie Jordan
It Was Almost Like a Song was written by Archie Jordan
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2MusicBrainz It Was Almost Like a Song was written by Hal David
It Was Almost Like a Song was written by Hal David
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3MusicBrainz It Was Almost Like a Song is part of the release You Light Up My Life
It Was Almost Like a Song is part of the release You Light Up My Life
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4MusicBrainz Columbia is the label of the song It Was Almost Like a Song
Columbia is the label of the song It Was Almost Like a Song
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5MusicBrainz It Was Almost Like a Song was released on 1978-02-21
It Was Almost Like a Song was released on 1978-02-21
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026