Why Do Fools Fall in Love (Album)

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Why Do Fools Fall in Love
Studio album by Diana Ross

Publication
(s)

4th September 1981

admission

1980-1981

Label (s) RCA Records

Format (s)

CD, record

Genre (s)

R&B , soul

Title (number)

9

running time

35:46

occupation
  • Singing: Diana Ross

production

Diana Ross

chronology
All the Great Hits
(1981) 		Why Do Fools Fall in Love Silk Electric
(1982)
Single releases
September 25, 1981 Why Do Fools Fall in Love / Think I'm in Love
December 11, 1981 Mirror Mirror / Sweet Nothings
March 19, 1982 Work That Body / Two Can Make It
May 1982 It's never too late

Why Do Fools Fall in Love is the eleventh studio album by Diana Ross . It was released in September 1981 and was named after the song of the same name.

history

Why Do Fool's Fall in Love was the first Diana Ross album after separating from Motown and the first to be released by RCA Records . It was named after a cover by Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers , which opened the album. The song Sweet Nothings is also a hit from the 1950s and was written by Ronnie Self for Brenda Lee . The album contains compositions by various songwriters written for Ross. Most of the compositions are by keyboardist Ray Chew. Ross himself only took part in the songwriting of Work that Body . There is also a solo version of the duet Endless Love with Lionel Richie .

Why Do Fools Fall in Love was Diana Ross' most successful album in the 1980s, alongside Diana . After the Diana album , it was the second Ross album to go platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America . The album also achieved gold status in Finland.

Track list

  1. Why Do Fools Fall in Love ( Frankie Lymon , Morris Levy ) - 2:52
  2. Sweet Surrender (Leonard Stack, Cheryl Christiansen) - 4:07
  3. Mirror, Mirror ( Michael Sembello , Michael Matkowsky) - 6:06
  4. Endless Love (Lionel Richie) - 4:55
  5. It's Never Too Late ( Dan Hartman ) - 3:17
  6. Think I'm in Love (L. Cheryl Taylor) - 4:13
  7. Sweet Nothings (Ronnie Self, Dub Albritton) - 2:59
  8. Two Can Make It ( Dean Pitchford , Tom Snow ) - 3:23
  9. Work That Body (Diana Ross, Ray Chew) - 4:57

Music genre

Why Do Fool's Fall in Love includes a number of styles of music that were popular in the early 1980s, including disco , a form of aerobics ( Work That Body ), a 1950s rock 'n' roll song, and several ballads .

occupation

The album was recorded by a number of session musicians:

Charts

album

year title Chart placements
DE AT CH UK US
1981 Why Do Fools Fall in Love 16 / / 20th 15th

Singles

year title Chart placements
DE AT CH UK US
1981 Why Do Fools Fall in Love 17th / 9 4th 7th
1981 Mirror Mirror / / / 36 8th
1982 Work that body / / / 7th 44
1982 It's never too late / / / 41 /

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diana Ross at Allmusic (English)
  2. ↑ Sweet Nothin's. Secondhandsongs.com, accessed November 20, 2011 .
  3. ↑ a b The Supremes. Warr.org, accessed November 20, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Why Do Fools Fall in Love on Allmusic (English). Retrieved November 19, 2011.
  5. ↑ Search on RIAA.com
  6. ↑ Longplay Charts ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Musicline.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  7. ↑ a b search query on Everyhit.com
  8. ↑ Allmusic.com Albums
  9. ↑ Musicline.de Single Charts ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  10. ↑ Swisscharts.com
  11. ↑ Allmusic.com Singles