OVER YOU (Byron Hill & Tony Hiller) Recorded by Anne Murray, Capitol Records, 1994 Tony Hiller and I wrote "Over You" way back in 1984.  Our good friend, the late and great Canadian singer Colleen Peterson sang the original demo, which immediately cast the song in the direction of Anne Murray.  Somehow it got to Anne, and David Foster produced the recording on her sometime around 1984 or 1985.  Tony Hiller and I were very disappointed then to find out then that it had been bumped from the album.  Amazingly, nearly ten years later, I was at the CCMA Awards in Calgary, when one of Anne's staffers approached me to tell me that Anne was searching through old masters to find a recording she could used as a single to promote her hits album, to be titled The Best So Far.  The recording caught everyone's ear, they tracked down the master (which had long since been stored at an engineer's home in Los Angeles under his bed...so the story goes).  One thing lead to another and the recording was spruced up, remixed, and finally released as a single and released on Anne's album in 1994 (ten years later!).  It meant the world to Tony Hiller and I.  We're very proud of the cut. The story doesn't end here. Seems the song is full of surprises. Fifteen years later (Feb. 2009), I was writing again with Tony, and we decided to look up the Anne Murray cut and see what the sales were. We discovered that the album had been certified Platinum by the RIAA. Amazing. What will happen next with "Over You". The song seems to have a life of its own!   [LISTEN TO A SAMPLE OF ANNE MURRAY'S VERSION]   OVER YOU (Hill/Hiller)   OVER YOU I GUESS I NEVER WILL BE OVER YOU I HAVE TRIED BUT IT'S SO HARD TO DO I'M SURROUNDED BY THE MEMORIES NO I NEVER WILL BE   OVER YOU TIME GOES BY AND I'M STILL HOLDING ON WAITING FOR THE DAY WHEN YOU COME HOME IF YOU EVER CHANGE YOUR MIND AGAIN I WILL GREET YOU LIKE A LONG LOST FRIEND IN MY HEART WE'VE NEVER REACHED THE END AND I NEVER WILL BE OVER YOU   (INSTRUMENTAL)   I WILL LOVE YOU TILL THE END OF TIME EVEN THOUGH I KNOW THAT YOU'RE NOT MINE JUST AS LONG AS THERE'S A CHANCE THEN I GUESS I NEVER WILL BE OVER YOU   LIFE'S LIKE WALKING DOWN A LONELY STREET I SEE YOU IN EVERY ONE I MEET HOW I LONG TO SEE YOUR SMILING FACE OH MY LOVE FOR YOU I CAN'T ERASE NO ONE ELSE COULD EVER TAKE YOUR PLACE AND I NEVER WILL BE OVER YOU   © 1994 Requested Songs (ASCAP), administered by Polygram International Publishing, Inc, c/o Universal-MCA Music Publishing, A division of Universal Studios (ASCAP)/Colgems-EMI Music (ASCAP) Used by Permission. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved.