Everlasting Love
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"Everlasting Love" is a song written by Buzz Cason
and Mac Gayden
that has been a hit for various artists, including Robert Knight
, Carl Carlton
, Love Affair
, and Gloria Estefan
.
, whose producers Buzz Cason and Mac Gayden aimed to record him in a Motown style with especial reference to the Four Tops
and the Temptations
. Cason would recall how he and Gayden wrote "Everlasting Love" to serve as B-side
for a song entitled "The Weeper", which they were to record with Knight. The night before the recording session for "The Weeper", Gayden stopped by Cason's home and, according to Cason, "as usual brought several melodies, riffs and grooves to work on", two of whose hit potential particularly struck Cason, who had Gayden combine these ideas into one melody. The writing session was abbreviated as Gayden had to go home for supper; Cason assured his partner: "I'll put some kind of lyric to it...Neither of us was too concerned as just knew that 'The Weeper' would be the hit of the session." Cason believes he may have drawn the phrase "everlasting love" from the biblical verse Jeremiah
31.3 which begins: "Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love".
Ultimately "Everlasting Love" was released as an A-side for Knight and reached No. 13 in 1967. Subsequently the song has reached the U.S. Top 40 three times, most successfully by Carl Carlton
, who peaked at No. 6 in 1974, with more moderate success for remakes by Rex Smith
and Rachel Sweet
(No. 32, 1981) and Gloria Estefan
(No. 27, 1995). Thus, "Everlasting Love" is one of two songs (the other being "The Way You Do the Things You Do
") to become a Top 40 hit in the 1960s, '70s, '80s and '90s.
In the UK, versions of "Everlasting Love" have appeared in the Top 40 in every decade between 1960 and 2010, always—with the exception of the 1980s—reaching the Top 20. In 1968 Love Affair
took the song to No. 1. The Robert Knight original had peaked at No. 40 in 1968, but was re-issued in 1974 and reached No. 19. In 1981, a duet version with Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet hit No. 35). "Everlasting Love" reached the UK Top 20 three times in the 1990s with versions by Worlds Apart
(No. 20, 1993), Gloria Estefan (No. 27, 1995) and, most successfully, with a charity single by the Cast of Casualty
that reached No. 5 in 1998. In 2004 Jamie Cullum
reached No. 20 with his version.
In 1987 the rendition of "Everlasting Love" by Sandra reached at least the Top 20 in at least eight territories, going Top 10 in four. Her version also reached UK No. 45 in 1988, affording "Everlasting Love" its second UK Top 50 incarnation of the decade. The song has also charted internationally via its renditions by Love Affair, Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet and Worlds Apart.
As early as 1968 "Everlasting Love" was remade for the C&W
market by Hank Locklin
, who charted at No. 57. Narvel Felts
would make the song a major C&W hit in 1979, reaching No. 14 on the Billboard
C&W chart
; a concurrent remake by Louise Mandrell
peaked at No. 69 C&W.
Just prior to the release of Jamie Cullum's 2004 version, Buzz Cason theorized on his composition's appeal: "It's an uplifting song, with a real positive feeling, and it's danceable. I think people get a lift from it. When it comes to that chorus it just really lets go." (Nashville Times Daily 28 October 2004)
played drums - and it was the last-named song which was issued as Knight's single in July 1967 ("The Weeper" would in fact never be released, the track "Somebody's Baby" served as the B-side for "Everlasting Love"). Debuting on the Billboard Hot 100
dated 30 September 1967, "Everlasting Love" had already reached #1 in Philadelphia and Detroit by the time of its Top 40 debut on 21 October 1967. Cason - ["'Everlasting Love'] drove...the promotion guys nuts since it hit in one market then several weeks later pop up somewhere else." The track spent its second week at its Hot 100 peak of #13 on the chart dated December 2 1967 then dropped off the Hot 100 over the next three weeks. The R&B chart
peak of "Everlasting Love" was #14.
In its original release Knight's "Everlasting Love" lost out in the UK to a cover by Love Affair
although Knight's version did spend two weeks at #40 UK in January 1968. In the spring of 1974 Knight's "Everlasting Love" had a second UK release to followup the Top Ten success of the reissue of Knight's "Love on a Mountain Top"; this time the first-named track reached #19.
An airplay staple on American oldies
radio stations (though less so than the 1974 Carl Carlton version), Knight's "Everlasting Love" has become a "cult favorite" of the beach music
scene.
Charts:
who rejected it as "too Pop"; "Everlasting Love" was then passed to the group Love Affair, who like Marmalade were on the CBS
roster. Muff Winwood
produced the original Love Affair recording of "Everlasting Love" but the label rejected it and producer Mike Smith recorded a new track featuring Love Affair lead vocalist Steve Ellis backed by studio musicians rather than his fellow band members. The female choir on this recording comprised Madeline Bell
, Lesley Duncan
Kiki Dee and Kay Garner.
Debuting on the UK Top 50 dated 2 January 1968, "Everlasting Love" by Love Affair rose to #1 for a two week stay that February. The track also charted internationally - see the chart below.
The band members of Love Affair soon admitted that their hit was essentially a studio production incurring a spate of bad press but no significant negative impact on the band's popularity: their followup to "Everlasting Love": "Rainbow Valley" - another Cason/Gayden composition introduced by Robert Knight - reached #5 UK and the additional success of "A Day Without Love" (#6) made Love Affair the UK's top group in singles sales for the year 1968 excepting the Beatles
.
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band the Town Criers
whose recording - with production credited to Geoffrey Edelsten
- was released in February 1968 to reach #2 on the Melbourne hit parade
with chart impact in two other major markets: Adelaide
(#33) and Sydney
(#16) contributing to a national peak of #17 besting the #23 peak of the Love Affair version.
which reached the Top Ten on the Billboard Hot 100
in 1974.
The track features a distinctive countermelody, running through most of the song, consisting of background vocal harmonies. Brenda Russell
is among the background vocalists.
Carlton had recorded "Everlasting Love" in October 1973 at Nashville recording studio Creative Workshop which was owned by the song's composer Buzz Cason; however Cason was not involved in the recording by Carlton, the singer himself choosing to record "Everlasting Love" which he knew via the version on David Ruffin
's 1969 My Whole World Ended album. Produced by Papa Don Schroeder and Tommy Cogbill
, Carlton's original recording of "Everlasting Love" was issued as the B-side of the 1973 single "I Wanna Be Your Main Squeeze"; the track (ie. "Everlasting Love") was then issued in July 1974 as an A-side having been given a disco
style remix and became a discothèque favorite before breaking on the Hot 100 in September 1974 to proceed to a #6 peak that November, almost reaching the R&B Top Ten at #11. http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/carlton_carl/bio.jhtml
Carlton's version remains an airplay favorite on American oldies
radio stations. According to Broadcast Music Incorporated
(BMI), the 1974 Carl Carlton
version has been played more than 4 million times.
One of the earliest Pop hits to crossover
from disco airplay, Carlton's "Everlasting Love" is a staple of disco music compilations including the second installment of the Pure Disco
CD compilation series.
Charts:
and Rachel Sweet
; this version features revised lyrics including an additional verse of uncredited authorship.
The track marked the Columbia
debut of Sweet who'd previously recorded two albums for the New Wave
oriented Stiff
label. According to Sweet upon submitting the tracks intended to comprise her first album for Columbia - all original songs produced by Pete Solly - she was told: "we'd like you to cut some more songs. And we'd like it if they weren't yours." Columbia was hoping that augmenting Sweet's album with outside material produced by Rick Chertoff
- then best known for his work with Air Supply
- would provide Sweet with a commercial breakout, with "Everlasting Love" in particular being recorded for its perceived hit potential.
In keeping with the trend for duets prevalent in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Sweet was paired on "Everlasting Love" with another Columbia artist who was being produced by Chertoff: Rex Smith, who had reached #10 in 1979 with "You Take My Breath Away": their duet on "Everlasting Love" was featured on both Sweet's And Then He Kissed Me album and the album Everlasting Love by Smith and the single was a two-track B-side featuring Sweet's "Billy and the Gun" and Smith's "Still Thinking of You" respectively taken from each singer's last-named album.
With neither singer having a current Top 40 presence the teaming of Sweet and Smith on "Everlasting Love" generated a qualified chart impact with a #32 peak on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1981; this would provide Sweet with her only Top 40 showing and Smith with a second and final one. The track also appeared on Billboard
's Hot Adult Contemporary chart peaking at #31.
This Rex Smith/Rachel Sweet version of "Everlasting Love" was also a mid-chart item in the UK at #35; in Australia the track reached #41 mainly due to its being a local Top Ten hit in Adelaide
at #9. In 1982 the Smith/Sweet version of "Everlasting became a Top Ten hit in Switzerland (#9) and Denmark (#4) also reaching #11 in South Africa.
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A promotional video
was shot for "Everlasting Love" with Smith and Sweet playing a couple getting married. The singers performed "Everlasting Love" live on the Solid Gold
episode aired 19 February 1983: Smith was currently co-hosting the show on which Sweet guested to promote her current single "Voodoo".
and early 1988
"Everlasting Love" was a hit in several European territories as rendered by German
singer Sandra. Born in 1962, Sandra was familiar with the song via the 1968 Love Affair version; she'd say of the song: "I have always loved it...Even as a little child I heard that song and I said that I would like to sing it sometime." The video
shot for Sandra's version featured the singer and Austrian model Rupert Weber playing lovers at different points in history beginning with Adam and Eve
.
Everlasting Love", the tenth solo single released by Sandra, was featured on her 5 October 1987 album release Ten on One (The Singles). The track was a Top Ten hit in Austria (#6), Belgium (Dutch charts #9), Germany (#5), the Netherlands (#8) and Switzerland (#5) also charting in France (#23), Italy (#19) and Sweden (#13).
Sandra's "Everlasting Love" also reached the UK chart at #88; the track was subsequently acquired by Pete Waterman
who had "Everlasting Love (the PWL mix)" - remixed by Pete Hammond - released in the UK in the summer of 1988 to barely improve on the original's UK chart performance with a #79 peak. However "Everlasting Love (the PWL mix)" re-entered the UK chart in December 1988 to rise as high as #45 in January 1989; the track was a hit in South Africa (#4) while in its Australian release "Everlasting Love (the PWL mix)" reached the Adelaide
hit parade at #21 with a national chart showing of #72. In the US "Everlasting Love (the PWL mix)" rose as high as #22 on the Billboard
maxi single
sales chart.
The PWL mix of "Everlasting Love" was showcased on an Everlasting Love
album which was released in December 1988 only in the UK and the US; besides "Everlasting Love (the PWL mix)" the album comprised the original versions of several of Sandra's European hits.
In 2006
, a ballad version was also done by Sandra, this one being from her album Reflections.
Track listings:
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1987 release
1988 release
Certifications:
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Country
!Certification
!Date
!Sales certified
|-
|France
| style="text-align:center"|Silver
| style="text-align:center"|1988
| style="text-align:center"|200,000
|}
Charts:
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Chart (1987)
!Peak
position
|-
|Austrian Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|6
|-
|Belgian Singles Chart (Flemish Region)
| style="text-align:center"|9
|-
|Dutch Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|8
|-
|Eurochart Hot 100
| style="text-align:center"|5
|-
|French Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|23
|-
|German Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|5
|-
|Italian Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|19
|-
|Swedish Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|13
|-
|Swiss Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|5
|-
|UK Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|88
|-
!Chart (1988)
"Everlasting Love (the PWL mix)"
!Peak
position
|-
|UK Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|45
|-
|Australian Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|72
|-
|South African Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|4
|-
|U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales 1
| style="text-align:center"|22
|}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!End of year chart (1987)
!Position
|-
|Swiss Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|30
|}
Worlds Apart
included a remake of "Everlasting Love" on their 1994 debut album Together, all that album's tracks featuring Aaron Paul on lead; recorded at Select Recording Studios in Wood Green
with producers Pete Schwier and Ricki Wilde, the track had had a single release in the September 1993 reaching #20 UK - #23 in Ireland - and was issued in September 1994 in Germany to peak at #40. A new version of "Everlasting Love" with a lead by Nathan Moore was included in the French edition of the second Worlds Apart album Everybody; produced by Andy Reynolds and Tee Green this track spent nine weeks in the Top Ten in France - four of them at its #4 peak - in December 1996 and January 1997 and also became a hit in Belgium on both the French and Dutch charts, respective peaks being #29 and #33.
for her 1994 album release Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
which comprised remakes of well-known hits, with "Everlasting Love" being the second album track issued as a US single following "Turn the Beat Around
" (in some territories including the UK "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
" was the album's second single precedent to "Everlasting Love").
"Everlasting Love" was not one of Estefan's highest ranking Billboard Hot 100
entrants peaking at #27 in March 1995. However, the single topped the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play
. The single was more successful in the UK with a #19 peak in February 1995 buoyed by a performance by Estefan on the 19 February 1995 broadcast of TOTP
.
"Everlasting Love," the music video:
Estefan, pregnant with her second child at the time, could not appear in the video
. The production team, which included co-directors Tony Minnelli and Paul Lynde, along with Estefan, decided to give the video a twist. They selected some of the best drag talent from West Hollywood, California
to star in the video. Five appeared as Gloria Estefan, each representing a different stage in Estefan's career. Some notable video cast members include female impersonator; Julian Viva, Hollywood Super Club Kids
; The Fabulous Wonder Twins
, and drag performers Venus D-Lite and Sutan Amrull
aka Raja. The latter two recently appeared as cast member's of Logo
's series RuPaul's Drag Race
(Season 3), in which Sutan Amrull
was crowned the winner.
"Everlasting Love" was shot at The Sunset Studios in Hollywood, California
.
The video was so well received worldwide, Estefan decided to add video cast members, Julian Viva and Willie E., to her "Evolution Tour" "Evolution Tour" act.
Gloria Estefan went on to receive The Award for "Best Video Clip of the Year" at the Billboard Music Awards.
Formats and track listings:
U.S. CD Maxi Single (49K 77775)
UK CD Maxi Single (661159 5)
Release history:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Region
! Date
|-
| United States
|
|-
| Japan
|
|-
| World
|
|}
Charts:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!align="left"|Chart (1995)
!align="left"|Peak
position
|-
|align="left"|Australia Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|28
|-
|align="left"|Colombia Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|2
|-
|align="left"|New Zealand Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|24
|-
|align="left"|UK Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|19
|-
|align="left"|U.S. Billboard
Hot 100
| style="text-align:center"|27
|-
|align="left"|U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream
| style="text-align:center"|28
|-
|align="left"|U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary
| style="text-align:center"|5
|-
|align="left"|U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play
| style="text-align:center"|1
|-
|align="left"|U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales
| style="text-align:center"|10
|}
Certifications :
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!align="left"|Country
!align="left"|Certification
!align="left"|Sales
|-
|align="left"|Australia
| style="text-align:center"|Gold
| style="text-align:center"|35,000
|-
|align="left"|United States
| style="text-align:center"|Gold
| style="text-align:center"|500,000
|}
Official versions :
Original versions
Remixes
|-
! ARTIST
! RECORDING INFO
! YEAR
|-
| Carlo Lind
| single "Viel zu viel Gefühl" Polydor 52882
| 1967
|-
| Nicoletta
| single "L'amour me pardonne" Riviera r518
#60
| 1967
|-
| Rosalía
| single "Un eterno amor" Zafiro OOX-197
| 1968
|-
| Ricchi e Poveri
| single "L'ultimo amore"CBS 3417
| 1968
|-
| Joe Dassin
| single "Plus je te vois, plus je te veux" CBS 3336
| 1968
|-
| The Drifters
| album cut
| 1969
|-
| Gary Bonner
| single MGM/Verve 72L3723
| 1972
|-
| Doug Parkinson
| single Atlantic 1011 74
| 1974
|-
| Mac Gayden
| album Skyboat ABC 927
| 1976
|-
| Patricia Paay
| single EMI Bovema 5C 006-25863
album The Lady is a Champ EMI Bovema 5C 064-25737
#16
| 1977
|-
| Steve Ellis
| album The Last Angry Man Ariola 5004
| 1977
|-
| Soirée
| album Soirée Road Show BXL1-3401
| 1979
|-
| Shampoo
| single "Everlasting" (medley
) Polydor 2040 319
| 1981
|-
| Wild Horses
| single EMI #5199
| 1981
|-
| Vicki Sue Robinson
| single Profile PRO 5039
#83
| 1984
|-
| Rosetta Hightower
and Henry Turtle
| single SEA 4 (Riviera Records UK)
| 1986
|-
| U2
| single Island Records IS422
#2 (double A-side hit w/"All I Want Is You")
#22 
#10 
#3
| 1989
|-
| Wolfgang Ziegler
| "Viel zu viel Gefühl" single B-side
"Du fehlst mi sehr" WEA 248 469-7
| 1987
|-
| Juha-Matti Mäkelä
| "Tosi Rakkaus"
album Hymy
| 1989
|-
| David Essex
| album Cover Shot Polygram 514 563-2
| 1993
|-
| Dominique Dalcan
| album L'équipe à JoJo - Les chansons de Joe Dassin par...
Columbia 50 9974 74889 2 4
tribute to Joe Dassin featuring various artists
| 1994
|-
| Wendy Van Wanten
| "Hij is zo lief"
album Blijf nog één nacht J.R.P. 2101763
| 1994
|-
| Heartclub featuring Ian Lex
| maxisingle
21st Century Records CNT 21-68
| 1994
|-
| Gaby Albrecht
| "Herzen lügen nicht"
album Herzen lügen nicht EAN 0743214016923
| 1998
|-
| Dump
| album Plea For Tenderness brcd070
| 1997
|-
| Seventh Avenue
| album Midnight in Manhattan Hot Productions HTCD 66117-2
bonus track added to reissue of 1979 album
| 1996
|-
| Fernando Express
| "Herzen lügen nicht"
album Die Könige Der Tanzpaläste EAN 0724382261827
| 1998
|-
| Knudsen Brothers
| album Livewired
| 2003
|-
| Jamie Cullum
| album Twentysomething
| 2004
|-
| Michael Ball
| album Music Universal 987424 1
| 2005
|-
| Scooter
| album Who's Got the Last Laugh Now Sheffield Tunes 0167362STU
| 2005
|-
| Kerry Norton
| single #97
album Young Heart NRCD 427992
| 2005
|-
| Mysterio
| single "Everlasting Love 2005" DA 874208-0
#87
album Ride on Time DA 874210-2
| 2004
|-
| The Soldiers
| album Letters Home Rhino 2564678108
| 2010
|-
| Howard Carpendale
|"Viel zu viel Gefühl"
| 2010
|}
Buzz Cason
Buzz Cason is an American rock singer, songwriter, producer and author....
and Mac Gayden
Mac Gayden
McGavock Gayden better known as Mac Gayden born in Nashville, Tennessee is an American rock and country singer, songwriter, musician and producer. He is also president of Wild Child Records formed in 2004....
that has been a hit for various artists, including Robert Knight
Robert Knight (musician)
Robert Knight is an American singer best known for the 1967 recording of the song "Everlasting Love".-Career:Born in Franklin, Tennessee, Knight made his professional vocal debut with the Paramounts, a harmony quintet consisting of schoolfriends...
, Carl Carlton
Carl Carlton
Carl Carlton is an American R&B, soul, and funk singer and songwriter, best known for his hits "Everlasting Love" and "She's a Bad Mama Jama ".-Career:...
, Love Affair
Love Affair (band)
Love Affair were a London based pop, soul, R&B group formed in 1966. They had several UK Singles Chart Top 10 hits, including the number one success "Everlasting Love".-Personnel:The band primarily featured the following —...
, and Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan
Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...
.
Overview
The original version of "Everlasting Love" was recorded in Nashville by Robert KnightRobert Knight (musician)
Robert Knight is an American singer best known for the 1967 recording of the song "Everlasting Love".-Career:Born in Franklin, Tennessee, Knight made his professional vocal debut with the Paramounts, a harmony quintet consisting of schoolfriends...
, whose producers Buzz Cason and Mac Gayden aimed to record him in a Motown style with especial reference to the Four Tops
Four Tops
The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet, whose repertoire has included doo-wop, jazz, soul music, R&B, disco, adult contemporary, hard rock, and showtunes...
and the Temptations
The Temptations
The Temptations is an American vocal group having achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, R&B, doo-wop, funk, disco, soul, and adult contemporary music.Formed in Detroit,...
. Cason would recall how he and Gayden wrote "Everlasting Love" to serve as B-side
A-side and B-side
A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...
for a song entitled "The Weeper", which they were to record with Knight. The night before the recording session for "The Weeper", Gayden stopped by Cason's home and, according to Cason, "as usual brought several melodies, riffs and grooves to work on", two of whose hit potential particularly struck Cason, who had Gayden combine these ideas into one melody. The writing session was abbreviated as Gayden had to go home for supper; Cason assured his partner: "I'll put some kind of lyric to it...Neither of us was too concerned as just knew that 'The Weeper' would be the hit of the session." Cason believes he may have drawn the phrase "everlasting love" from the biblical verse Jeremiah
Book of Jeremiah
The Book of Jeremiah is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, following the book of Isaiah and preceding Ezekiel and the Book of the Twelve....
31.3 which begins: "Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love".
Ultimately "Everlasting Love" was released as an A-side for Knight and reached No. 13 in 1967. Subsequently the song has reached the U.S. Top 40 three times, most successfully by Carl Carlton
Carl Carlton
Carl Carlton is an American R&B, soul, and funk singer and songwriter, best known for his hits "Everlasting Love" and "She's a Bad Mama Jama ".-Career:...
, who peaked at No. 6 in 1974, with more moderate success for remakes by Rex Smith
Rex Smith
Rex Smith is an American actor and singer. Smith debuted in the Broadway play Grease in 1978. He is noted for his role as Jesse Mach in the 1985 television series Street Hawk, as well as being a singer and stage actor. During the late 1970s, Smith was popular as a teen idol...
and Rachel Sweet
Rachel Sweet
Rachel Sweet is an American singer, television writer and actress.-Biography:After beginning her singing career at the age of three, when she won an electric garage door opener in a singing contest, she began recording commercials at the age of six, toured with Mickey Rooney, and performed in Las...
(No. 32, 1981) and Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan
Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...
(No. 27, 1995). Thus, "Everlasting Love" is one of two songs (the other being "The Way You Do the Things You Do
The Way You Do the Things You Do
"The Way You Do the Things You Do" was covered in 1989 by the band UB40. It was the sixth single from their 1989 album Labour of Love II. The song was released in 1989 in the major of the European countries .-Track listings:7"-Single...
") to become a Top 40 hit in the 1960s, '70s, '80s and '90s.
In the UK, versions of "Everlasting Love" have appeared in the Top 40 in every decade between 1960 and 2010, always—with the exception of the 1980s—reaching the Top 20. In 1968 Love Affair
Love Affair (band)
Love Affair were a London based pop, soul, R&B group formed in 1966. They had several UK Singles Chart Top 10 hits, including the number one success "Everlasting Love".-Personnel:The band primarily featured the following —...
took the song to No. 1. The Robert Knight original had peaked at No. 40 in 1968, but was re-issued in 1974 and reached No. 19. In 1981, a duet version with Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet hit No. 35). "Everlasting Love" reached the UK Top 20 three times in the 1990s with versions by Worlds Apart
Worlds Apart (boyband)
Worlds Apart were a multi-national boy band of the 1990s that featured Marcus Patrick in the original group and Totally Scott-Lee's Nathan Moore in one of the later incarnations of the band...
(No. 20, 1993), Gloria Estefan (No. 27, 1995) and, most successfully, with a charity single by the Cast of Casualty
Casualty (TV series)
Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
that reached No. 5 in 1998. In 2004 Jamie Cullum
Jamie Cullum
Jamie Cullum is an English pop and jazz-pop singer-songwriter. Though he is primarily a vocalist/pianist he also accompanies himself on other instruments including guitar and drums. Since April 2010, he has been presenting a weekly jazz show on BBC Radio 2, broadcast on Tuesdays from 19:00.- Early...
reached No. 20 with his version.
In 1987 the rendition of "Everlasting Love" by Sandra reached at least the Top 20 in at least eight territories, going Top 10 in four. Her version also reached UK No. 45 in 1988, affording "Everlasting Love" its second UK Top 50 incarnation of the decade. The song has also charted internationally via its renditions by Love Affair, Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet and Worlds Apart.
As early as 1968 "Everlasting Love" was remade for the C&W
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
market by Hank Locklin
Hank Locklin
Lawrence Hankins Locklin , better known as Hank Locklin, was an American country music singer-songwriter...
, who charted at No. 57. Narvel Felts
Narvel Felts
Narvel Felts is an American country music singer. Known for his soaring tenor and high falsetto, Felts enjoyed his greatest success during the 1970s, most famously 1975's "Reconsider Me."-Career:...
would make the song a major C&W hit in 1979, reaching No. 14 on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
C&W chart
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
; a concurrent remake by Louise Mandrell
Louise Mandrell
Thelma Louise Mandrell, also known as Louise Mandrell, was born July 13, 1954 and is an American country music singer. She is the younger sister of country singer Barbara Mandrell, and older sister of actress Irlene Mandrell. Louise had a successful singing career in country music with a string of...
peaked at No. 69 C&W.
Just prior to the release of Jamie Cullum's 2004 version, Buzz Cason theorized on his composition's appeal: "It's an uplifting song, with a real positive feeling, and it's danceable. I think people get a lift from it. When it comes to that chorus it just really lets go." (Nashville Times Daily 28 October 2004)
Robert Knight version
Although Buzz Cason and Mac Gayden had written "Everlasting Love" to serve as the B-side for their composition "The Weeper" which Robert Knight would record the next day, the hit potential of "Everlasting Love" was evident at the end of that recording session - on which Kenny ButtreyKenny Buttrey
Aaron Kenneth Buttrey was an American drummer and arranger. According to CMT, he was "one of the most influential session musicians in Nashville history"....
played drums - and it was the last-named song which was issued as Knight's single in July 1967 ("The Weeper" would in fact never be released, the track "Somebody's Baby" served as the B-side for "Everlasting Love"). Debuting on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
dated 30 September 1967, "Everlasting Love" had already reached #1 in Philadelphia and Detroit by the time of its Top 40 debut on 21 October 1967. Cason - ["'Everlasting Love'] drove...the promotion guys nuts since it hit in one market then several weeks later pop up somewhere else." The track spent its second week at its Hot 100 peak of #13 on the chart dated December 2 1967 then dropped off the Hot 100 over the next three weeks. The R&B chart
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...
peak of "Everlasting Love" was #14.
In its original release Knight's "Everlasting Love" lost out in the UK to a cover by Love Affair
Love Affair (band)
Love Affair were a London based pop, soul, R&B group formed in 1966. They had several UK Singles Chart Top 10 hits, including the number one success "Everlasting Love".-Personnel:The band primarily featured the following —...
although Knight's version did spend two weeks at #40 UK in January 1968. In the spring of 1974 Knight's "Everlasting Love" had a second UK release to followup the Top Ten success of the reissue of Knight's "Love on a Mountain Top"; this time the first-named track reached #19.
An airplay staple on American oldies
Oldies
Oldies is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that concentrates on music from a period of about 15 to 55 years before the present day....
radio stations (though less so than the 1974 Carl Carlton version), Knight's "Everlasting Love" has become a "cult favorite" of the beach music
Beach music
Beach music, also known as Carolina beach music, is a regional genre which developed from various musical styles of the forties, fifties and sixties. These styles ranged from big band swing instrumentals to the more raucous sounds of blues/jump blues, jazz, doo-wop, boogie, rhythm and blues,...
scene.
Charts:
| Chart (1967) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
13 |
| Chart (1968) | Peak position |
| UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
40 |
| Chart (1974) | Peak position |
| UK Singles Chart | 19 |
Love Affair version
In the UK the song "Everlasting Love" was shopped to the group MarmaladeMarmalade (band)
Marmalade were a successful Scottish pop rock group, from the east end of Glasgow, originally formed in 1961 as "The Gaylords", later "Dean Ford and The Gaylords". In 1966, they changed the group name to 'The Marmalade'. The most successful period for the band, in terms of UK chart success, was...
who rejected it as "too Pop"; "Everlasting Love" was then passed to the group Love Affair, who like Marmalade were on the CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
roster. Muff Winwood
Muff Winwood
Mervyn "Muff" Winwood is an English songwriter and record producer, and the older brother of Steve Winwood. Both were formerly members of the Spencer Davis Group in the 1960s, in which Muff Winwood played bass guitar...
produced the original Love Affair recording of "Everlasting Love" but the label rejected it and producer Mike Smith recorded a new track featuring Love Affair lead vocalist Steve Ellis backed by studio musicians rather than his fellow band members. The female choir on this recording comprised Madeline Bell
Madeline Bell
Madeline Bell is an American soul singer, who became famous as a performer in the United Kingdom during the 1960s, having arrived from the US in the gospel show Black Nativity in 1962, with vocal group The Bradford Singers.-Career:She worked as a session singer, most notably backing for Dusty...
, Lesley Duncan
Lesley Duncan
Lesley Duncan was an English singer-songwriter, best known for her work during the 1970s. She received a lot of airplay on British radio stations such as BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2, but never achieved great commercial success.Duncan was born in Stockton-on-Tees...
Kiki Dee and Kay Garner.
Debuting on the UK Top 50 dated 2 January 1968, "Everlasting Love" by Love Affair rose to #1 for a two week stay that February. The track also charted internationally - see the chart below.
The band members of Love Affair soon admitted that their hit was essentially a studio production incurring a spate of bad press but no significant negative impact on the band's popularity: their followup to "Everlasting Love": "Rainbow Valley" - another Cason/Gayden composition introduced by Robert Knight - reached #5 UK and the additional success of "A Day Without Love" (#6) made Love Affair the UK's top group in singles sales for the year 1968 excepting the Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
.
http://dating.lovetoknow.com/Love_Affair_Is_Everlasting_Love
| Chart (1968) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
1 |
| Australia singles chart | 23 |
| Austria singles chart | 12 |
| Belgium (Flemish Region) chart | 10 |
| French singles chart | 76 |
| German singles chart | 12 |
| Ireland singles chart | 2 |
| Malaysia singles chart | 1 |
| Netherlands singles chart | 13 |
| New Zealand singles chart | 4 |
| Norway singles chart | 6 |
| Poland singles chart | 4 |
| Swiss singles chart | 6 |
Town Criers version
In Australia the Love Affair version competed with a cover by MelburnianMelbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
band the Town Criers
Town Criers (musical group)
Town Criers were a Melbourne, Australia based pop band in the 1960s.Town Criers were formed in 1964, and had five chart hits in Melbourne from 1968 to 1970, including their cover version of "Everlasting Love" , and "Love Me Again". Founding vocalist Andy Agtoft was replaced around 1968, by Barry...
whose recording - with production credited to Geoffrey Edelsten
Geoffrey Edelsten
Geoffrey Walter Edelsten is an Australian medical entrepreneur. He was the first private owner of a major Australian football team when he bought the Sydney Swans Football Club in 1985. Edelsten was formerly a general practitioner, but was deregistered in New South Wales in 1988 and also in...
- was released in February 1968 to reach #2 on the Melbourne hit parade
Hit parade
A hit parade is a ranked list of the most popular recordings at a given point in time, usually determined by sales and/or airplay. The term originated in the 1930s; Billboard magazine published its first music hit parade on January 4, 1936...
with chart impact in two other major markets: Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
(#33) and Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
(#16) contributing to a national peak of #17 besting the #23 peak of the Love Affair version.
Carl Carlton version
The most successful US release of "Everlasting Love" was that by Carl CarltonCarl Carlton
Carl Carlton is an American R&B, soul, and funk singer and songwriter, best known for his hits "Everlasting Love" and "She's a Bad Mama Jama ".-Career:...
which reached the Top Ten on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
in 1974.
The track features a distinctive countermelody, running through most of the song, consisting of background vocal harmonies. Brenda Russell
Brenda Russell
Brenda Russell is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboardist. Known for her eclectic musical style, her recordings have encompassed several different genres, including pop, soul, dance, jazz and adult contemporary...
is among the background vocalists.
Carlton had recorded "Everlasting Love" in October 1973 at Nashville recording studio Creative Workshop which was owned by the song's composer Buzz Cason; however Cason was not involved in the recording by Carlton, the singer himself choosing to record "Everlasting Love" which he knew via the version on David Ruffin
David Ruffin
Davis Eli "David" Ruffin was an American soul singer and musician most famous for his work as one of the lead singers of the Temptations from 1964 to 1968...
's 1969 My Whole World Ended album. Produced by Papa Don Schroeder and Tommy Cogbill
Tommy Cogbill
Thomas Clark Cogbill, and known as Tommy Cogbill was an American bassist and record producer.Tommy Cogbill was born in Johnson Grove, Tennessee. He was a highly sought-after session and studio musician who appeared on many now-classic recordings of the 1960s and 1970s, especially those recorded in...
, Carlton's original recording of "Everlasting Love" was issued as the B-side of the 1973 single "I Wanna Be Your Main Squeeze"; the track (ie. "Everlasting Love") was then issued in July 1974 as an A-side having been given a disco
Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...
style remix and became a discothèque favorite before breaking on the Hot 100 in September 1974 to proceed to a #6 peak that November, almost reaching the R&B Top Ten at #11. http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/carlton_carl/bio.jhtml
Carlton's version remains an airplay favorite on American oldies
Oldies
Oldies is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that concentrates on music from a period of about 15 to 55 years before the present day....
radio stations. According to Broadcast Music Incorporated
Broadcast Music Incorporated
Broadcast Music, Inc. is one of three United States performing rights organizations, along with ASCAP and SESAC. It collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed...
(BMI), the 1974 Carl Carlton
Carl Carlton
Carl Carlton is an American R&B, soul, and funk singer and songwriter, best known for his hits "Everlasting Love" and "She's a Bad Mama Jama ".-Career:...
version has been played more than 4 million times.
One of the earliest Pop hits to crossover
Crossover (music)
Crossover is a term applied to musical works or performers appearing on two or more of the record charts which track differing musical tastes, or genres...
from disco airplay, Carlton's "Everlasting Love" is a staple of disco music compilations including the second installment of the Pure Disco
Pure Disco
Pure Disco is the name of a series of compilation CDs of disco, dance and funk music released by the Universal Music Group under the UTV Records label.-Pure Disco:# The Village People – "Y.M.C.A."# Kool & The Gang – "Celebration"# ABBA – "Dancing Queen"...
CD compilation series.
Charts:
| Chart (1974) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
6 |
Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet version
"Everlasting Love" reached the Top 40 for the third time in the summer of 1981 via a duet version cut by Rex SmithRex Smith
Rex Smith is an American actor and singer. Smith debuted in the Broadway play Grease in 1978. He is noted for his role as Jesse Mach in the 1985 television series Street Hawk, as well as being a singer and stage actor. During the late 1970s, Smith was popular as a teen idol...
and Rachel Sweet
Rachel Sweet
Rachel Sweet is an American singer, television writer and actress.-Biography:After beginning her singing career at the age of three, when she won an electric garage door opener in a singing contest, she began recording commercials at the age of six, toured with Mickey Rooney, and performed in Las...
; this version features revised lyrics including an additional verse of uncredited authorship.
The track marked the Columbia
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
debut of Sweet who'd previously recorded two albums for the New Wave
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
oriented Stiff
Stiff Records
Stiff Records is a record label created in London in 1976, by entrepreneurs Dave Robinson and Andrew Jakeman , and active until 1985. It was reactivated in 2007....
label. According to Sweet upon submitting the tracks intended to comprise her first album for Columbia - all original songs produced by Pete Solly - she was told: "we'd like you to cut some more songs. And we'd like it if they weren't yours." Columbia was hoping that augmenting Sweet's album with outside material produced by Rick Chertoff
Rick Chertoff
Rick Chertoff is a five-time Grammy-nominated producer responsible for such hits as Joan Osborne’s “One of Us”, Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and “Time After Time” and Sophie B...
- then best known for his work with Air Supply
Air Supply
Air Supply is an Australian soft rock duo, consisting of Graham Russell as guitarist and singer-songwriter and Russell Hitchcock as lead vocalist. They had a succession of hits worldwide, including eight Top Ten hits in the United States, in the early 1980s...
- would provide Sweet with a commercial breakout, with "Everlasting Love" in particular being recorded for its perceived hit potential.
In keeping with the trend for duets prevalent in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Sweet was paired on "Everlasting Love" with another Columbia artist who was being produced by Chertoff: Rex Smith, who had reached #10 in 1979 with "You Take My Breath Away": their duet on "Everlasting Love" was featured on both Sweet's And Then He Kissed Me album and the album Everlasting Love by Smith and the single was a two-track B-side featuring Sweet's "Billy and the Gun" and Smith's "Still Thinking of You" respectively taken from each singer's last-named album.
With neither singer having a current Top 40 presence the teaming of Sweet and Smith on "Everlasting Love" generated a qualified chart impact with a #32 peak on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1981; this would provide Sweet with her only Top 40 showing and Smith with a second and final one. The track also appeared on Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
's Hot Adult Contemporary chart peaking at #31.
This Rex Smith/Rachel Sweet version of "Everlasting Love" was also a mid-chart item in the UK at #35; in Australia the track reached #41 mainly due to its being a local Top Ten hit in Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
at #9. In 1982 the Smith/Sweet version of "Everlasting became a Top Ten hit in Switzerland (#9) and Denmark (#4) also reaching #11 in South Africa.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eqlAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=M-gFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6631,5576163&dq=rachel-sweet&hl=en
A promotional video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
was shot for "Everlasting Love" with Smith and Sweet playing a couple getting married. The singers performed "Everlasting Love" live on the Solid Gold
Solid Gold (TV series)
Solid Gold is an American syndicated music television series that debuted on September 13, 1980. Like many other shows of its genre, such as American Bandstand, Solid Gold featured musical performances and various other elements such as music videos...
episode aired 19 February 1983: Smith was currently co-hosting the show on which Sweet guested to promote her current single "Voodoo".
Sandra version
In late 19871987 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1987.See also:Record labels established in 1987-January-February:*January 3 – Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
and early 1988
1988 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1988.-January-March:* January 1 – André Rieu's Johann Strauss Orchestra plays its first concert....
"Everlasting Love" was a hit in several European territories as rendered by German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
singer Sandra. Born in 1962, Sandra was familiar with the song via the 1968 Love Affair version; she'd say of the song: "I have always loved it...Even as a little child I heard that song and I said that I would like to sing it sometime." The video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
shot for Sandra's version featured the singer and Austrian model Rupert Weber playing lovers at different points in history beginning with Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve were, according to the Genesis creation narratives, the first human couple to inhabit Earth, created by YHWH, the God of the ancient Hebrews...
.
Everlasting Love", the tenth solo single released by Sandra, was featured on her 5 October 1987 album release Ten on One (The Singles). The track was a Top Ten hit in Austria (#6), Belgium (Dutch charts #9), Germany (#5), the Netherlands (#8) and Switzerland (#5) also charting in France (#23), Italy (#19) and Sweden (#13).
Sandra's "Everlasting Love" also reached the UK chart at #88; the track was subsequently acquired by Pete Waterman
Pete Waterman
Peter Alan Waterman OBE is an English record producer, occasional songwriter, radio and club DJ, television presenter, president of Coventry Bears rugby league club and a keen railway enthusiast. As a member of the Stock Aitken Waterman songwriting team he wrote and produced many hit singles...
who had "Everlasting Love (the PWL mix)" - remixed by Pete Hammond - released in the UK in the summer of 1988 to barely improve on the original's UK chart performance with a #79 peak. However "Everlasting Love (the PWL mix)" re-entered the UK chart in December 1988 to rise as high as #45 in January 1989; the track was a hit in South Africa (#4) while in its Australian release "Everlasting Love (the PWL mix)" reached the Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
hit parade at #21 with a national chart showing of #72. In the US "Everlasting Love (the PWL mix)" rose as high as #22 on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
maxi single
Maxi single
A maxi single or maxi-single is a music single release with more than the usual two tracks of an a-side song and a b-side song.-The first maxi singles:...
sales chart.
The PWL mix of "Everlasting Love" was showcased on an Everlasting Love
Everlasting Love (Sandra album)
Everlasting Love is the second compilation album from German singer Sandra, released in 1988.This longplayer is not counted as a "regular" album, it is a special compilation for the Anglo-American market and was only released in the U.S. and UK...
album which was released in December 1988 only in the UK and the US; besides "Everlasting Love (the PWL mix)" the album comprised the original versions of several of Sandra's European hits.
In 2006
2006 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2006.-January:*January 10 – Eric Burdon releases his album Soul of a Man and begins touring with a new band....
, a ballad version was also done by Sandra, this one being from her album Reflections.
Track listings:
{|valign="top"|
1987 release
- 7" single
- "Everlasting Love" - 3
- 57
- "Change Your Mind" - 4:04
NEWLIN - 12" single
- "Everlasting Love" (extended mix) - 7
- 28
- "Change Your Mind" - 4:04
- "Everlasting Love" - 3:57
NEWLIN
1988 release
- 7" single
- "Everlasting Love" (PWL 7" mix) - 3
- 52
- "Stop for a Minute" - 3:51
NEWLIN - 12" single - UK
- "Everlasting Love" (PWL 12" mix) - 7
- 40
- "Everlasting Love" (PWL dub mix) - 6:57
- "Stop for a Minute" - 3:51
NEWLIN - 12" single - US
- "Everlasting Love" (PWL 12" mix) - 7
- 40
- "Everlasting Love" (PWL 7" mix) - 3:52
- "Everlasting Love" (PWL dub mix) - 6:57
- "Stop for a Minute" - 3:51
NEWLIN - 12" single - Canada
- "Everlasting Love" (PWL 12" mix) - 7
- 40
- "Everlasting Love" (PWL 7" mix) - 3:57
- "Everlasting Love" (PWL dub) - 6:57
- "Stop for a Minute" - 3:51
NEWLIN - CD single - UK
- "Everlasting Love" (PWL 7" mix) - 3
- 52
- "Stop for a Minute" - 3:48
- "Everlasting Love" (PWL 12" mix) - 7:41
- "(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena" - 3:57
NEWLIN
Certifications:
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Country
!Certification
!Date
!Sales certified
|-
|France
| style="text-align:center"|Silver
| style="text-align:center"|1988
| style="text-align:center"|200,000
|}
Charts:
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Chart (1987)
!Peak
position
|-
|Austrian Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|6
|-
|Belgian Singles Chart (Flemish Region)
| style="text-align:center"|9
|-
|Dutch Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|8
|-
|Eurochart Hot 100
| style="text-align:center"|5
|-
|French Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|23
|-
|German Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|5
|-
|Italian Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|19
|-
|Swedish Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|13
|-
|Swiss Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|5
|-
|UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
| style="text-align:center"|88
|-
!Chart (1988)
"Everlasting Love (the PWL mix)"
!Peak
position
|-
|UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
| style="text-align:center"|45
|-
|Australian Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|72
|-
|South African Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|4
|-
|U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales 1
| style="text-align:center"|22
|}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!End of year chart (1987)
!Position
|-
|Swiss Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|30
|}
Worlds Apart version
UK boybandBoy band
A boy band is loosely defined as a popular music act consisting of only male singers. The members are expected to dance as well as sing, usually giving highly choreographed performances. More often than not, boy band members do not play musical instruments, either in recording sessions or on...
Worlds Apart
Worlds Apart
Worlds Apart is an album by ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. It was released on January 25, 2005 by Interscope Records and reached #92 on the UK Album Chart....
included a remake of "Everlasting Love" on their 1994 debut album Together, all that album's tracks featuring Aaron Paul on lead; recorded at Select Recording Studios in Wood Green
Wood Green
Wood Green is a district in north London, England, located in the London Borough of Haringey. It is situated north of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of the metropolitan centres in Greater London.-History:...
with producers Pete Schwier and Ricki Wilde, the track had had a single release in the September 1993 reaching #20 UK - #23 in Ireland - and was issued in September 1994 in Germany to peak at #40. A new version of "Everlasting Love" with a lead by Nathan Moore was included in the French edition of the second Worlds Apart album Everybody; produced by Andy Reynolds and Tee Green this track spent nine weeks in the Top Ten in France - four of them at its #4 peak - in December 1996 and January 1997 and also became a hit in Belgium on both the French and Dutch charts, respective peaks being #29 and #33.
Gloria Estefan version
"Everlasting Love" was recorded by Gloria EstefanGloria Estefan
Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...
for her 1994 album release Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" was released as single from Gloria Estefan's fourth solo-credited studio album Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me.-Formats and track listings:Europe CD Maxi Single ...
which comprised remakes of well-known hits, with "Everlasting Love" being the second album track issued as a US single following "Turn the Beat Around
Turn the Beat Around
In 1994 , the song was recorded by Gloria Estefan for the soundtrack to the film The Specialist. Released as a single, it became a hit reaching #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is also featured on Estefan's fourth solo album Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me. She also sang the song as her opening...
" (in some territories including the UK "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" was released as single from Gloria Estefan's fourth solo-credited studio album Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me.-Formats and track listings:Europe CD Maxi Single ...
" was the album's second single precedent to "Everlasting Love").
"Everlasting Love" was not one of Estefan's highest ranking Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
entrants peaking at #27 in March 1995. However, the single topped the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play
Hot Dance Club Play
The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...
. The single was more successful in the UK with a #19 peak in February 1995 buoyed by a performance by Estefan on the 19 February 1995 broadcast of TOTP
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...
.
"Everlasting Love," the music video:
Estefan, pregnant with her second child at the time, could not appear in the video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
. The production team, which included co-directors Tony Minnelli and Paul Lynde, along with Estefan, decided to give the video a twist. They selected some of the best drag talent from West Hollywood, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
to star in the video. Five appeared as Gloria Estefan, each representing a different stage in Estefan's career. Some notable video cast members include female impersonator; Julian Viva, Hollywood Super Club Kids
Club Kids
The Club Kids were a group of young New York City club personalities mostly led by Michael Alig and James St. James in the late 1980s and early 1990s...
; The Fabulous Wonder Twins
The Fabulous Wonder Twins
The Fabulous Wonder Twins—Gay entertainment personalities, Louis Alberto Campos and Carlos Eduardo Campos, in San Salvador, the capital city of El Salvador—are a pair of gay fraternal twin brothers who have been featured in MTV music videos, made cameos on film and television motion pictures and...
, and drag performers Venus D-Lite and Sutan Amrull
Sutan Amrull
Sutan Amrull , known also as Raja and Raja Gemini, is an American make-up artist and drag performer. He is best known for his work on the reality television show America's Next Top Model, serving as the show's make-up artist for nine cycles...
aka Raja. The latter two recently appeared as cast member's of Logo
Logo (TV channel)
Logo is an American digital cable television channel owned by Viacom's MTV Networks division. Launched in June 2005, the channel's programs are geared towards the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community...
's series RuPaul's Drag Race
RuPaul's Drag Race
RuPaul's Drag Race is an American reality television series produced by World of Wonder for Logo. RuPaul plays host, mentor and inspiration for this series, which details RuPaul's search for "America's next drag superstar."...
(Season 3), in which Sutan Amrull
Sutan Amrull
Sutan Amrull , known also as Raja and Raja Gemini, is an American make-up artist and drag performer. He is best known for his work on the reality television show America's Next Top Model, serving as the show's make-up artist for nine cycles...
was crowned the winner.
"Everlasting Love" was shot at The Sunset Studios in Hollywood, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
.
The video was so well received worldwide, Estefan decided to add video cast members, Julian Viva and Willie E., to her "Evolution Tour" "Evolution Tour" act.
Gloria Estefan went on to receive The Award for "Best Video Clip of the Year" at the Billboard Music Awards.
Formats and track listings:
U.S. CD Maxi Single (49K 77775)
- "Everlasting Love" (Album Version)
- "Everlasting Love" (7" Remix)
- "Everlasting Love" (Classic Paradise Radio Mix)
- "Everlasting Love" (Alternate Mix)
- "Everlasting Love" (Classic Paradise Mix)
- "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" (Album Version)
UK CD Maxi Single (661159 5)
- "Everlasting Love" (Classic Paradise Mix)
- "Everlasting Love" (Deep Love Mix)
- "Everlasting Love" (Hacienda Mix)
- "Everlasting Love" (Aphrodisiac Mix)
Release history:
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| United States
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| Japan
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Charts:
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!align="left"|Chart (1995)
!align="left"|Peak
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|align="left"|Australia Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|28
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|align="left"|Colombia Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|2
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|align="left"|New Zealand Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|24
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|align="left"|UK Singles Chart
| style="text-align:center"|19
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|align="left"|U.S. Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Hot 100
| style="text-align:center"|27
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|align="left"|U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream
| style="text-align:center"|28
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|align="left"|U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary
| style="text-align:center"|5
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|align="left"|U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play
| style="text-align:center"|1
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|align="left"|U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales
| style="text-align:center"|10
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Certifications :
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!align="left"|Country
!align="left"|Certification
!align="left"|Sales
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|align="left"|Australia
| style="text-align:center"|Gold
| style="text-align:center"|35,000
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|align="left"|United States
| style="text-align:center"|Gold
| style="text-align:center"|500,000
|}
Official versions :
Original versions
- Album Version - 4:01
Remixes
- 7" Remix - 3:40
- Classic Paradise Radio Mix - 4:00
- Classic Paradise Mix - 8:51
- Alternate Mix - 3:44
- Hacienda Mix - 8:13
- Hacienda Dub - 8:15
- Deep Love Dub - 7:08
- Deep Love Mix - 8:09
- Aphrodisiac Mix - 7:14
- Classic Paradise Dub - 11:45
- Moran's Marathon Love Mix - 9:49
- Alternate Mix - 3:44
Other versions (table)
{| class="wikitable"|-
! ARTIST
! RECORDING INFO
! YEAR
|-
| Carlo Lind
| single "Viel zu viel Gefühl" Polydor 52882
| 1967
|-
| Nicoletta
Nicoletta
Nicoletta or Nicoleta may refer to:* Nicoleta Alexandru, singer who represented Romania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2003* Nicoletta Braschi, Italian actress* Nicoleta Grasu, Romanian discus thrower* Nicoleta Onel, Romanian gymnast...
| single "L'amour me pardonne" Riviera r518
#60| 1967
|-
| Rosalía
| single "Un eterno amor" Zafiro OOX-197
| 1968
|-
| Ricchi e Poveri
Ricchi e Poveri
Ricchi e Poveri is one of the most famous Italian pop music groups in Europe and Latin America. Active since the late 1960s, they have sold over 20 million records.-Formation and early success:...
| single "L'ultimo amore"CBS 3417
| 1968
|-
| Joe Dassin
Joe Dassin
Joseph Ira Dassin , more commonly known as Joe Dassin, was an American singer-songwriter best known for his French songs of the 1960s and 1970s.-Biography:...
| single "Plus je te vois, plus je te veux" CBS 3336
| 1968
|-
| The Drifters
The Drifters
The Drifters are a long-lived American doo-wop and R&B/soul vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1963, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today. They were originally formed to serve as Clyde McPhatter's backing group in 1953...
| album cut
| 1969
|-
| Gary Bonner
| single MGM/Verve 72L3723
| 1972
|-
| Doug Parkinson
| single Atlantic 1011 74
| 1974
|-
| Mac Gayden
| album Skyboat ABC 927
| 1976
|-
| Patricia Paay
Patricia Paay
Patricia Anglaia Margareth Paaij , best known as Patricia Paay, is a Dutch singer, radio host, glamour model and television personality. In the Netherlands, she is well known for her musical career, which spans over four decades...
| single EMI Bovema 5C 006-25863
album The Lady is a Champ EMI Bovema 5C 064-25737
#16| 1977
|-
| Steve Ellis
Steve Ellis
Steve Ellis may refer to:*Steve Ellis *Steve Ellis *Steven Ellis *Steve Ellis *Steve Ellis , World Managing Director of Bain & Company...
| album The Last Angry Man Ariola 5004
| 1977
|-
| Soirée
| album Soirée Road Show BXL1-3401
| 1979
|-
| Shampoo
| single "Everlasting" (medley
Medley (music)
In music, a medley is a piece composed from parts of existing pieces, usually three, played one after another, sometimes overlapping. They are common in popular music, and most medleys are songs rather than instrumental. A medley which is a remixed series is called a megamix, often done with tracks...
) Polydor 2040 319
| 1981
|-
| Wild Horses
Wild Horses (British band)
Wild Horses were a British rock band, active during the late 1970s and early 1980s.-History:Wild Horses was formed in the summer of 1978 by ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson and ex-Rainbow bassist Jimmy Bain...
| single EMI #5199
| 1981
|-
| Vicki Sue Robinson
Vicki Sue Robinson
Vicki Sue Robinson was an American theatre and film actress and singer, closely associated with the disco era of late 1970s pop music; she is most famous for her 1976 hit, "Turn the Beat Around."-Early life and career:...
| single Profile PRO 5039
#83| 1984
|-
| Rosetta Hightower
Rosetta Hightower
Rosetta Hightower is an American singer,and the former lead singer of the 1960s girl group The Orlons....
and Henry Turtle
| single SEA 4 (Riviera Records UK)
| 1986
|-
| U2
U2
U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...
| single Island Records IS422
#2 (double A-side hit w/"All I Want Is You") #22 #10 #3| 1989
|-
| Wolfgang Ziegler
| "Viel zu viel Gefühl" single B-side
A-side and B-side
A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...
"Du fehlst mi sehr" WEA 248 469-7
| 1987
|-
| Juha-Matti Mäkelä
| "Tosi Rakkaus"
album Hymy
| 1989
|-
| David Essex
David Essex
David Essex OBE is an English musician, singer-songwriter and actor. Since the 1970s, Essex has attained nineteen Top 40 singles in the UK , and sixteen Top 40 albums...
| album Cover Shot Polygram 514 563-2
| 1993
|-
| Dominique Dalcan
| album L'équipe à JoJo - Les chansons de Joe Dassin par...
Columbia 50 9974 74889 2 4
tribute to Joe Dassin featuring various artists
| 1994
|-
| Wendy Van Wanten
| "Hij is zo lief"
album Blijf nog één nacht J.R.P. 2101763
| 1994
|-
| Heartclub featuring Ian Lex
| maxisingle
Maxi single
A maxi single or maxi-single is a music single release with more than the usual two tracks of an a-side song and a b-side song.-The first maxi singles:...
21st Century Records CNT 21-68
| 1994
|-
| Gaby Albrecht
| "Herzen lügen nicht"
album Herzen lügen nicht EAN 0743214016923
| 1998
|-
| Dump
Dump (band)
Dump is a vehicle for releasing the four-track home recordings of Yo La Tengo bassist James McNew. His recordings occasionally feature guest performers such as Sue Garner and Fontaine Toups...
| album Plea For Tenderness brcd070
| 1997
|-
| Seventh Avenue
Seventh Avenue
-Streets and transportation:* Seventh Avenue , a street in Manhattan, New York City, New York* Seventh Avenue, Newark, New Jersey, a neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey...
| album Midnight in Manhattan Hot Productions HTCD 66117-2
bonus track added to reissue of 1979 album
| 1996
|-
| Fernando Express
| "Herzen lügen nicht"
album Die Könige Der Tanzpaläste EAN 0724382261827
| 1998
|-
| Knudsen Brothers
| album Livewired
| 2003
|-
| Jamie Cullum
Jamie Cullum
Jamie Cullum is an English pop and jazz-pop singer-songwriter. Though he is primarily a vocalist/pianist he also accompanies himself on other instruments including guitar and drums. Since April 2010, he has been presenting a weekly jazz show on BBC Radio 2, broadcast on Tuesdays from 19:00.- Early...
| album Twentysomething
Twentysomething (album)
Twentysomething is the third album by Jamie Cullum. It was released in 2003 in his native UK, and in May 2004 in the United States.On this release Cullum performs some original material as well as some covers and standards...
| 2004
|-
| Michael Ball
Michael Ball (singer)
Michael Ashley Ball, born 27 June 1962) is a British actor, singer, and radio and TV presenter who is best known for the song "Love Changes Everything" and musical theatre roles such as Marius in Les Misérables, Alex in Aspects of Love, Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Edna Turnblad...
| album Music Universal 987424 1
| 2005
|-
| Scooter
Scooter (band)
Scooter are a German hard dance band founded in Hamburg, who have sold over 25 million records and earned over 80 gold and platinum awards. Scooter are considered the most successful single-record German act with 23 top ten hits. The band is currently composed of members H.P. Baxxter, Rick J....
| album Who's Got the Last Laugh Now Sheffield Tunes 0167362STU
| 2005
|-
| Kerry Norton
Kerry Norton
Kerry Norton is an English actress.- Acting career :Kerry had a small part on the American TV series, Sabrina the Teenage Witch in 1996. The episode, entitled "A Girl and Her Cat", saw Norton putting her years of gymnast training to the test...
| single
#97album Young Heart NRCD 427992
| 2005
|-
| Mysterio
| single "Everlasting Love 2005" DA 874208-0
#87album Ride on Time DA 874210-2
| 2004
|-
| The Soldiers
The Soldiers
The Soldiers is a singing trio consisting of serving British Army soldiers, signed to CPW Productions Warner Bros. Records, whose debut album, Coming Home, was released on 26 October 2009. The trio consists of Ryan Idzi, Richie Maddocks and Gary Chilton. The Soldiers' first national interview was...
| album Letters Home Rhino 2564678108
| 2010
|-
| Howard Carpendale
|"Viel zu viel Gefühl"
| 2010
|}
Miscellany
- In a December 1994 storyline on The Bold and the BeautifulThe Bold and the BeautifulThe Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....
the characters Macy Alexander and Thorne ForresterThorne ForresterThorne Forrester is a fictional character on CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. The character has been played by Winsor Harmon since December 1996; previously, the role was played by Clayton Norcross from the show's premier in 1987 until 1989, then by Jeff Trachta from 1989 until 1996.-The...
gave a concert in the NetherlandsNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
which included a performance of "Everlasting Love": the performances featured on the TV show were culled from two concerts at the Ahoy Rotterdam headlined by Bobbie EakesBobbie EakesBobbie Eakes is an American actress and singer. She is known for her role as Macy Alexander Forrester Chambers Sharpe on The Bold and the Beautiful and for her role as Krystal Carey Chandler Martin Hayward on All My Children .- Personal life :She is the youngest...
(Macy) and Jeff TrachtaJeff TrachtaJeff Trachta is an American actor, recording artist, comedian, and Las Vegas headliner.-Music:Trachta’s break in Hollywood was as the soap opera star Thorne Forrester on the CBS show The Bold & The Beautiful...
(Thorne) that October. - The version by Love AffairLove Affair (band)Love Affair were a London based pop, soul, R&B group formed in 1966. They had several UK Singles Chart Top 10 hits, including the number one success "Everlasting Love".-Personnel:The band primarily featured the following —...
features in the film Bridget Jones: The Edge of ReasonBridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (film)# Will Young - "Your Love Is King"# Jamelia - "Stop"# Kylie Minogue - "Can't Get You Out of My Head"# Joss Stone - "Super Duper Love Pt. 1"# Mary J...
(2004), but not on the soundtrack album which features the Jamie CullumJamie CullumJamie Cullum is an English pop and jazz-pop singer-songwriter. Though he is primarily a vocalist/pianist he also accompanies himself on other instruments including guitar and drums. Since April 2010, he has been presenting a weekly jazz show on BBC Radio 2, broadcast on Tuesdays from 19:00.- Early...
version. Cullum's version was heard in the trailer for the film Imagine That. - The Carl Carlton version has served as an advertising jingleJingleA jingle is a short tune used in advertising and for other commercial uses. The jingle contains one or more hooks and lyrics that explicitly promote the product being advertised, usually through the use of one or more advertising slogans. Ad buyers use jingles in radio and television...
for Hallmark CardsHallmark CardsHallmark Cards is a privately owned American company based in Kansas City, Missouri. Founded in 1910 by Joyce C. Hall, Hallmark is the largest manufacturer of greeting cards in the United States. In 1985, the company was awarded the National Medal of Arts....
US/Canada TV ad campaign for musical cards. - The Love Affair version was used in the early 2000s for a UK TV ad campaign for McDonald'sMcDonald'sMcDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...
. After Clare TorryClare TorryClare Torry is a British singer who famously performed the wordless vocals on Pink Floyd's "The Great Gig in the Sky" on the 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon.-Education:...
made enquiries with McDonald's on behalf of the session musicians who played on the track - including vocalists Madeline BellMadeline BellMadeline Bell is an American soul singer, who became famous as a performer in the United Kingdom during the 1960s, having arrived from the US in the gospel show Black Nativity in 1962, with vocal group The Bradford Singers.-Career:She worked as a session singer, most notably backing for Dusty...
, Lesley DuncanLesley DuncanLesley Duncan was an English singer-songwriter, best known for her work during the 1970s. She received a lot of airplay on British radio stations such as BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2, but never achieved great commercial success.Duncan was born in Stockton-on-Tees...
and Kay Garner - these musicians received remuneration for performing on the ad in the amount of £400 (the original session fee for the vocalists had been six guineas each). - In 2006 PringlesPringlesPringles is a brand of potato and wheat based snacks originally developed by Procter & Gamble. Pringles are sold in more than 140 countries and have yearly sales of more than...
potato chips utilized a version of "Everlasting Love" for a television ad campaign; the version was specially recorded with session musicians. - The Kerry NortonKerry NortonKerry Norton is an English actress.- Acting career :Kerry had a small part on the American TV series, Sabrina the Teenage Witch in 1996. The episode, entitled "A Girl and Her Cat", saw Norton putting her years of gymnast training to the test...
version of the song originated in a 2005 Dutch TV ad campaign for Grolsch beerGrolsch BreweryGrolsch Brewery , known simply as Grolsch , is a Dutch brewery founded in 1615 by Willem Neerfeldt in Groenlo. In 1895 the De Groen family bought the brewery. They had started their own brewery in Cuijk the Netherlands in early 1800. It held a significant stake until November 2007...
. - The Carl Carlton version was frequently used in the HBOHome Box OfficeHBO, short for Home Box Office, is an American premium cable television network, owned by Time Warner. , HBO's programming reaches 28.2 million subscribers in the United States, making it the second largest premium network in America . In addition to its U.S...
series Arli$$Arliss-Criticism:This show, which ran for seven seasons, is a prime example of how HBO differs from traditional networks due to its nature as a network its viewers specifically pay to be able to watch. Arliss was cited by so many viewers as the sole reason that they paid for the network that its...
(usually when the end credits were displayed). - The 2003 film Veronica GuerinVeronica Guerin (film)Veronica Guerin is a 2003 Irish biographical film directed by Joel Schumacher. The screenplay by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue focuses on Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, whose investigation into the drug trade in Dublin led to her murder in 1996....
features the U2 version of "Everlasting Love"; Cate BlanchettCate BlanchettCatherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian actress. She came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 biopic film Elizabeth, for which she won British Academy of Film and Television Arts and Golden Globe Awards, and earned her first Academy Award...
as the title characterVeronica GuerinVeronica Guerin was an Irish crime reporter who was murdered on 26 June 1996 by drug lords, an event which, alongside the murder of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe three weeks earlier, helped establish the Criminal Assets Bureau....
dances to the song with actors Barry Barnes and Simon O'Driscoll as respectively Guerin's husband and the couple's son. - The song has been performed three times on American IdolAmerican IdolAmerican Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
, by Clay AikenClay AikenClayton Holmes "Clay" Aiken is an American singer, songwriter, actor, producer and author who began his rise to fame on the second season of the television program American Idol in 2003. RCA Records offered him a recording contract, and his multi-platinum debut album Measure of a Man was released...
, Jasmine TriasJasmine TriasJasmine Trias is an American singer-entertainer who was the third place finalist on the third season of American Idol, due in part to tremendous call-in support from California, New York, and her native state of Hawaii. She has released one album to date, Jasmine Trias...
, and Scott SavolScott SavolScott Thomas Savol is an American singer and was the 5th place finalist on the fourth season of American Idol.-Personal life:...
. - The song featured as the background music on the BBCBBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
TV programme The Rock 'n' Roll YearsThe Rock 'n' Roll YearsThe Rock 'n' Roll Years was a BBC television programme aired between 1985 and 1994. In a half-hour time slot the programme focused on a different year each week, starting with the year 1956 and ending with 1989....
for the 1981 edition, aired in early 1994, during the clip which showed the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess DianaDiana, Princess of WalesDiana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whom she married on 29 July 1981, and an international charity and fundraising figure, as well as a preeminent celebrity of the late 20th century...
. Ironically, the episode was made after the couple had separated.