Giving You the Best That I Got (song)

"Giving You the Best That I Got"
Single by Anita Baker
from the album Giving You the Best That I Got
B-side"Good Enough"
ReleasedSeptember 27, 1988
Recorded1988
Genre
Length4:18 (album version)
3:54 (single version)
LabelElektra
Songwriters
ProducerMichael J. Powell
Anita Baker singles chronology
"Ain't No Need to Worry"
(1987)
"Giving You the Best That I Got"
(1988)
"Just Because"
(1989)

"Giving You the Best That I Got" is a song by American R&B recording artist Anita Baker, taken from her third studio album of the same name (1988). The song was released as the album's lead single on September 27, 1988 by Elektra Records. The music video was filmed inside the 109th Field Artillery in Kingston, Pennsylvania. The song was written by Baker, Clarence Alexander Scarborough, and Randy Holland, and produced by Michael J. Powell.