You Light Up My Life

Do you remember that song? Probably not because it peaked at number five.

50 as the follow-up to her smash single, You Light Up My Life.

For Men at Work, their follow-up to the smash Who Can It Be Now was another number one smash, Down Under, which became the biggest song of their career and one of the 300 biggest songs of all time.

For the Fine Young Cannibals, remember that late 80s group? Their smash hit, She Drives Me Crazy, was followed up by another number one song, Good Thing.

[gentle music] It's the song that defined a decade.

In the 1970s, the Debbie Boone hit You Light Up My Life was everywhere.

10 consecutive weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and the man behind the song is Nick and Amanda Brooks' father.

Amanda believes her father's troubled life would lead to the accusation that her brother killed Sylvie Cachay.

[upbeat music] Maxwell House.

He went from writing jingles to making movies about people who wrote jingles.

Brooks' first Hollywood project, You Light Up My Life, about an aspiring songwriter, didn't attract a lot of studio interest

interestNo one wanted to buy it, but he had such self-confidence that he invested like a quarter of a million dollars of his own money in it, and it wound up making him, like, 40 million.