Endless Love (Lionel-Richie-and-Diana-Ross-Lied)

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Endless love
Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
publication August 1, 1981
length 4:24
Genre (s) Pop , Contemporary R&B
Author (s) Lionel Richie
Producer (s) Lionel Richie
Label Motown
album Endless Love (Soundtrack)
Cover version
August 29, 1994 Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey

Endless Love is a pop - ballad from 1981, by Lionel Richie for the soundtrack to the movie Endless Love was written. The piece is interpreted as a duet by Richie and Diana Ross . In the song, the protagonists confess their love for one another. The music magazine Vibe named it in 2000 among the "20 love song classics".

Original version

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Endless love
  CH 6th 09/27/1981 (7 weeks)
  UK 7th 09/12/1981 (12 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 07/11/1981 (27 weeks)

Emergence

Director Franco Zeffirelli and film producer Jon Peters was looking for a composer for the instrumental - subject to the planned film Endless Love (dt. Endless Love ). The theme of the film Love Story should serve as a model . Richie played the two a piece of music that he had originally written for The Commodores , but which has not yet been recorded. A little later Zeffirelli decided against a purely instrumental piece and Richie wrote a song text. The director suggested recording the song as a duet with Diana Ross. Although both artists were under contract to various record labels, both Richie's label Motown and Ross' label RCA Records agreed to the collaboration.

The recordings proved extremely difficult because Diana Ross was touring the United States and Lionel Richie was working on The Commodores' next album in Los Angeles . It was agreed that both artists would meet in a recording studio in Reno . So Richie was able to fly there after the recording sessions in Los Angeles, while Diana Ross came from a concert at Lake Tahoe . The recordings took place in the early morning at 3:00 a.m. and lasted around an hour and a half.

Publication and Success

The song was released as a single by Motown in June 1981 , and the ballad became a number one hit in the United States and Australia . After Olivia Newton-John's classic Physical , this became the second best-selling single in the United States in 1981, and along with number one hits from her band The Supremes , this is Ross' eighteenth number one hit in the United States and her last label success Motown . In 1982 the song was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Song , but lost to Christopher Cross Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) . In the same year, the hit won the American Music Awards for Best Pop / Rock Single .

At the time of publication, the single set three records. It was Motown's most commercially successful release, it was the most successful film score to date, and it was the most successful duet.

Diana Ross' album Why Do Fools Fall in Love includes a solo version of Endless Love . The song is also used in the film Happy Gilmore .

Cover version by Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Endless love
  DE 14th 10/03/1994 (19 weeks)
  AT 13 10/16/1994 (12 weeks)
  CH 6th 10/02/1994 (15 weeks)
  UK 3 09/17/1994 (20 weeks)
  US 2 09/10/1994 (20 weeks)

In 1994 Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey re-recorded the song for Vandross' album Songs . The idea to cover the duet with Mariah Carey came from Tommy Mottola , then head of Sony Music Entertainment . The contact between Carey and Vandross came about through their joint producer Walter Afanasieff , who in addition to Carey's albums also produced the album Songs . The new recording was intended as a guarantee of success for Vandross' cover album Songs , although a new recording of Lionel Richie's Hello was already available. The remake of Endless Love was a number one hit in New Zealand. The release was on August 29, 1994. The cover was in 1995 for the Grammy Award in the category Best collaboration with vocals - Pop (Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals) nominated, losing to Al Greens and Lyle Lovett's Funny How Time Slips Away .

Other covers

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael A. Gonzales: 20 Classic Love Songs . In: Vibe . February 2000, p. 116 .
  2. ↑ Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
  3. ↑ a b c d e Fred Bronson: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits . Updated and Expanded 5th Edition. Billboard Books, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-8230-7677-2 , pp. 885 .
  4. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
  5. ^ Marc Shapiro: Mariah Carey . ECW Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-55022-444-3 , pp. 87 .
  6. ^ Babyface, Luther, Anita Baker Among Top Grammy Nominees . In: JET . January 23, 1995, p. 54 .