Love Hangover
| "Love Hangover" | ||||
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| Single by Diana Ross | ||||
| from the album Diana Ross | ||||
| B-side | "Kiss Me Now" | |||
| Released | March 16, 1976 | |||
| Recorded | 1975 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 7:48 3:46 (single edit) | |||
| Label | Motown M 1392 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Marilyn McLeod, Pamela Sawyer | |||
| Producer(s) | Hal Davis | |||
| Diana Ross singles chronology | ||||
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| Official audio | ||||
| "Love Hangover" (album edit) on YouTube | ||||
"Love Hangover" is a song by the Motown singer Diana Ross, recorded in 1975 and released as a single on March 16, 1976. It rose to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot-Selling Soul Singles. It also hit number one on the Record World disco charts.
Producer
disco" mindset.[3] As the song changed from ballad to uptempo, Ross became more comfortable with the material; she hummed, sang bit parts, laughed, danced around and even imitated Billie Holiday.[4]
The song was first released on the album Grammy nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. It appeared on the soundtrack of the following year's Diane Keaton movie Looking for Mr. Goodbar.
"Love Hangover" reached number one on May 29, 1976. That week, Casey Kasem reported on American Top 40 that Ross had broken the record for the most number-one hits by a female vocalist. With her fourth number one, she passed Connie Francis, Helen Reddy, Roberta Flack, and Cher, each of whom had three.
Ross performed the song on the April 4, 1980 episode of The Muppet Show during its season four run.
The song was remixed several times. A version remixed by Eric Kupper, known as "Love Hangover 2020", hit number one on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart in March 2020.
Remixes
Joey Negro
for a single).
Almighty Records released a remixed version in 2007 (remixed by the UK team Almighty).
New remixes were released in 2020 by Eric Kupper, peaking at number one on March 28 on the Billboard Dance Club chart.[5]
Track listing
1993 UK 12" promo
Side A
- "Love Hangover" (Tribal Hangover) – 9:26
- "Love Hangover" (Classic Club – EP version) – 8:20
- "Love Hangover" (Tribal Reprise) – 5:25
- "Your Love" – 3:58
Side B
- "Upside Down" ('93 Remix – EP version) – 8:00
- "Upside Down" (Dub 2 – Morales) – 7:37
- "Someday We'll Be Together" ('93 Remix – EP version) – 8:40
- "Someday We'll Be Together" (Final Sound Factory) – 6:54
Cover versions
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- The before mentioned simultaneously in 1976 issued 5th Dimension cover would be that group's last Hot 100hit.
- Players Associationcovered the track in 1977.
- Stanley Turrentine on The Man with the Sad Face in 1976.[6]
- In 1982 British new wave band The Associates released a double side 45 single "18 Carat Love Affair" / "Love Hangover"[7] which peaked at No. 21 on the UK chart in 1982.
- Background vocals from the original alternate take were sampled by Hardrive in the 1993 House song "No Cure".
- British soul singer Pauline Henry (former lead vocalist of the Chimes) recorded a contemporary version of the track in 1995 (released as a single).
- Italian dance act Black Box sampled the song on their 1996 disco-house single, "I Got The Vibration/Positive Vibration", which reached no. 21 in the UK and no. 18 in the Italian charts.
- The song was sampled in Monica's 1998 hit "The First Night", which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
- Mariah Carey performed the song also on the concert tribute to Diana Ross (2000). Carey also performed a mix of "Love Hangover" the lead single from her 1999 seventh studio album, Rainbow, "Heartbreaker" on her Angels Advocate Tour between 2009 and 2010, on All The Hits Tour, a co-headlining tour with American singer Lionel Richie in 2017, and second Las Vegas residency, The Butterfly Returns in 2018.
- Singer Jody Watley recorded a downtempo version for her 2006 album, The Makeover.
- Erykah Badu performed the song in 2007 as part of the BET Tribute To Diana Ross as she was awarded the BET Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Australian singer-songwriter Tina Arena recorded a version in 2007 for her album, Songs of Love & Loss.
- In 2007, sixth season of American Idol.
- The song would become part of the hip-hop lexicon via Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, French artist MC Solaar, and Emily King, who made use of it for her 2007 debut album East Side Storyin the song "Walk in My Shoes".
- Chinese Democracy World Tour 2009/2010.
- In 2023, the song was performed on Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour by her background vocalists, Pure Honey, during a band intermission. At the September 4, 2023, show in Los Angeles, Diana Ross joined the Pure Honey singers onstage for their performance and led the audience in singing "Happy Birthday" to Beyoncé.
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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See also
- List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1976 (U.S.)
- List of number-one R&B singles of 1976 (U.S.)
- List of number-one dance singles of 1976 (U.S.)
- List of number-one dance singles of 2020 (U.S.)
References
- ^ a b Pitchfork Staff (August 22, 2016). "The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s". Pitchfork. Retrieved October 13, 2022.
Its extended disco metamorphosis, which accounts for more than five of the song's nearly eight-minute length, turns out to be the hair of the dog...
- ^ Breihan, Tom (November 15, 2022). "George McCrae - "Rock Your Baby". The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music. New York: Hachette Book Group. p. 108.
- ^ Ed Hogan. "Love Hangover – Diana Ross | Song Info". AllMusic. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
- ^ Fred Bronson, "Love Hangover" in Billboard Book of Number One Hits, 1988
- ^ "Dance Club Songs Chart". Billboard.
- AllMusic. Retrieved April 16, 2015.
- ^ The Associates – "18 Carrot Love Affair" / "Love Hangover" (1982) single at Discogs
- ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ "Diana Ross – Love Hangover" (in French). Ultratop 50. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
- ^ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 4701a." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
- ^ "Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Issue 4165." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
- ^ "InfoDisc : Les Tubes de chaque Artiste commençant par R". Infodisc.fr. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
- ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Love Hangover". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved June 22, 2017.
- ISBN 9781093264906.
- ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Diana Ross" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
- ^ "Diana Ross – Love Hangover" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
- ^ "Diana Ross – Love Hangover". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
- ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
- ^ "Diana Ross Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
- ^ "Diana Ross Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
- ^ "Diana Ross Chart History (Dance Club Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
- ^ "Diana Ross Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
- ^ "Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on January 23, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
- ^ "Top 100 1976". Top-source.info. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
- ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1976/Top 100 Songs of 1976". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
- ^ "Top 100 Year End Charts: 1976". Cashbox Magazine. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
External links
- List of cover versions of "Love Hangover" at SecondHandSongs.com
- Diana Ross - Love Hangover on YouTube
