"You Take My Breath Away" is the 1979 debut single by singer-actor Rex Smith and the first release from his third studio album Sooner or Later which is also featured in the 1979 made-for-television film of the same title starring Smith and Denise Miller. It was produced by Charles Calello and Stephen Lawrence, and written by Lawrence and Bruce Hart. The song reached number ten on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1979 for two weeks and spent two weeks at number seven on the Cash Box Top 100. It also