Love Is Alive (Gary Wright song)

"Love Is Alive" is a song by Gary Wright taken from the 1975 album The Dream Weaver. It features Wright on vocals and keyboards and Andy Newmark on drums, with all music except for the drums produced on the keyboards. The album's title cut and "Love Is Alive" both peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.^[2] "Love Is Alive" spent 27 weeks on the chart, seven weeks longer than "Dream Weaver". Billboard ranked "Love Is Alive" as the No. 9 song of 1976.

In the US, "Love Is Alive" peaked at number two on the Hot 100, tied with "Dream Weaver" as his highest chart-topping single on that chart.^[2] "Kiss and Say Goodbye" by The Manhattans and "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John and Kiki Dee kept it from the number one spot.^[3] In Canada, the song reached No. 6.^[4]

Chart performance

Covers and samples

• Olivia Newton-John covered the track on her first live album, Love Performance in 1976. She performed the song on her first 1976 ABC-TV special^[8] and on a 1977 BBC special.^[9] Her rendition was also included as a bonus track on the 2010 Japanese re-issue of her album Totally Hot.
• I Feel For You (album).^[10]
• In 1991,
  Mainstream Rock
  chart in the summer of 1992.
• In 1997, dance act 3rd Party recorded the song for their debut album Alive which charted on the Billboard Hot 100. This version peaked at number 19 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music chart.^[11]
• Joan Osborne covered the song on her album Righteous Love (2000). She frequently played it in concert, and one of these performances was included on the compilation album Radio Waves (2022). The Associated Press called her cover version "improbably funky".^[12]

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