The narrator alludes to various hedonistic 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."
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Lasker located Charlene who, discouraged by the poor performance of her 1977 Motown releases and by the 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 candy store in Ilford.
The Temptations recorded "I've Never Been to Me" with the male-formatted lyrics on their Reunion album in 1982. 5
Howard Keel recorded "I've Never Been to Me" with the male-formatted lyrics for his album Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.
"That song said what I really wanted to say to myself," he explained.
It was covered by Irish TV puppet Dustin the Turkey (from the children's TV series The Den) with re-worked lyrics on his album Unplucked.
2 In addition, the song topped the charts in Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
The song is also featured in the first act of the stage musical where it is mimed onstage by two Sydney female impersonators at the Imperial Hotel in Erskineville, Australia. 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 Charlene had recorded "I've Never Been to Me" in 1976 for her debut album, the self-titled The earliest version of "I've Never Been to Me" to be released was by In February 1978, a mid-tempo recording of "I've Never Been to Me" by When the song was revived in 1982, the version being played on radio was the take with the monologue (from the Prodigal LP 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 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 Charlene re-released the song in the form of a dance remix via download music in 2008. !
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The song is also featured in the first act of the stage musical where it is mimed onstage by two Sydney female impersonators at the Imperial Hotel in Erskineville, Australia.
In addition, the song topped the charts in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and Ireland.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 jet setting lifestyle the song's narrator has led.
Charlene Marilynn Oliver, better known mononymously as Charlene, is an American easy-listening and R&B singer best-known for the song "I've Never Been to Me", which, initially being a commercial flop upon its original release in 1977, became a worldwide hit upon a re-release in 1982 and has remained an enduring AC staple.
Cancel Unsubscribe. The re-release became a huge hit in England as well.The song was originally written from a male perspective but was rewritten by Ron Miller for Charlene.