Boris Gardiner ’I Want To Wake Up With You’ (Official Video)

Fully restored official promotional video for Boris Gardiner’s UK Number One from 1986. The first of two international hits in 1986 for celebrated Jamaican singer-bassist Boris Gardiner, written by Nashville-based songwriter Ben Peters, ‘I Want To Wake Up with You“ was first recorded in 1980 by US country music artist and actor Mac Davis as ‘I Wanta Wake Up With You’. Six years later, Gardiner covered the song as ‘I Want to Wake Up with You“ (aka I Wanna Wake Up with You), with his lilting reggae interpretation hitting the UK Number one spot No. 1 on the Singles chart on August 1986, finally surrendering the position on . The record was the country’s third best-selling single of year also reached number 3 in South Africa, where it spent a total of 18 weeks on the national charts. Among the subsequent versions of the song are covers by fellow Jamaican John Holt, Engelbert Humperdinck and noted country singers, Johnny Rodriguez and Christy Lane. The music video for Boris’s version of the song was filmed at a number of West London locations, which include Westbourne Park tube station, the Westway flyover and Holland Park. Follow Trojan Records: I Want To Wake Up With You (Ben Peters) I want to wake up with you I want to be there when you open your eyes I want you to be the first thing that I see I want to wake up with you I want to lay by your side, baby I want to feel every beat of your heart And throughout the night. I wanna hold you tight I want to wake up with you All the love inside me has been sleeping Waiting ’til the right one came along You can share the love that I’ve been keeping, baby You can put the music to my song I want to wake up with you I want to reach out and know that you’re there I want you to be the first thing that I see I want to wake up with you And throughout the night I wanna hold you tight I want to wake up with you All the love inside me has been sleeping Waiting ’til the right one came along You can share the love that I’ve been keeping You can put the music to my song I want you to be the first thing that I see I want to wake up with you All the love inside me has been sleeping Waiting till the right one came along You can share the love that I’ve been keeping You can put the music to my song I want to wake up with you I want to reach out and know that you’re there I want you to be the first thing that I see I want to wake up with you #BorisGardiner #1986 #LoversRock #Revue #Trojan