Everlasting Love

Infobox Single
Name =Everlasting Love


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Artist =Robert Knight
Album =
A-side =
B-side ="Somebody's Baby"
Released = 1967
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Label =Monument Records MON 1008
Writer =Buzz Cason, Mac Gayden
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Last single =
This single ="Everlasting Love"
(1967)
Next single =
Misc = Infobox Single
Name = Everlasting Love


Artist = The Love Affair
from Album =
B-side = "Gone are the songs of Yesterday" (Goodhand-Tait)
Released = 1968
Format = 7"
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Length =
Label = CBS 3125
Producer = Mike Smith
Arranger = Keith Mansfield
Writer = Buzz Cason
Mac Gayden
Producer =
Certification =
Reviews =
Last single = "She Smiled Sweetly"
(1967)
This single = "Everlasting Love"
(1968)
Next single = "Rainbow Valley"
(1968)"Everlasting Love" is a song written by Buzz Cason and Mac Gayden. The song was first a hit for soul singer Robert Knight in 1967 and recorded by several other artists in the years since, notably Carl Carlton, Sandra Cretu, Gloria Estefan, U2, Scooter and English pop band Love Affair. Love Affair's single reached number-one in the UK Singles Chart on 31 January 1968. ["Everlasting Love" by Love Affair No. 1 in UK for two weeks 1968." http://www.theofficialcharts.com/all_the_no1_songs.php?show=2]

ong profile

Robert Knight's original version of "Everlasting Love" became a hit in the United States in the fall of 1967, reaching No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. Knight's version remains an airplay favorite on American oldies radio stations (as does the 1974 Carl Carlton version).Knight's version has become a "cult favorite" with the Carolina Beach and Shag Dance fans.

Knight's version, however, was easily eclipsed in the United Kingdom when Love Affair's version (CBS 3125, b/w "Gone are the Songs of Yesterday" (Phillip Goodhand-Tait) topped the UK singles chart in 1968. Theirs entered the UK chart on 3 January that year, and that by Knight on 17 January, for two weeks, reaching no higher than No. 40. It had previously been offered to Marmalade, another group on CBS, but they rejected it as they thought it too pop-oriented for them. Knight's version was re-issued in the UK, and fared better on the chart in its reissue in the spring of 1974 when it rose to No. 19.

Since then it has been taken into the same chart by a number of further artists. Covers include the reworking by jazz artist Jamie Cullum, a charity version by the stars of the British TV medical drama "Casualty", and versions by Carl Carlton (1974, the most popular version of the song in the U.S. where it reached #6 in the Billboard Hot 100), Rex Smith & Rachel Sweet (1981), German 80s pop star Sandra (1987), as a B-side by U2 (1987), and by Gloria Estefan (1994). The song's timeless melody, and distinctive optimistic lyrics, make it one of the defining 1960s pop songs.

According to Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI), the 1974 Carl Carlton version has been played more than 4 million times. It is also considered one of the earliest successful disco songs on the pop charts, and was featured in the second installment of the popular "Pure Disco" CD compilation series.

In 2006, Pringles used the song in a television advert for their crisps.

A portion of the Carl Carlton 1974 version has also been used in a Hallmark musical card sold in the U.S and Canada.

There is also a different Rufus/Chaka Khan tune of the same name (recorded by Vanessa L. Williams). Yet another song of the same name was recorded in 1960 by the late Toni Fisher (b/w "The Red Sea of Mars"). This song is also not to be confused with Andy Gibb's similarly-titled 1978 hit "An Everlasting Love."

Popular versions

*Robert Knight (1967 - #13 US, #40 UK) (reissue hit #19 UK in 1974)
*Love Affair (1968 - #1 UK)
*Town Criers (1968)
*Ricchi e Poveri (as L'ultimo Amore) (1968)
*David Ruffin (1969)
*Carl Carlton (1974 - #6 US)
*Doug Parkinson (1974 Australia#22-18, Melbourne#14, Sydney#25, Adelaide#16)
*Patricia Paay (1977 released in Holland and Australia)
*Narvel Felts (1979 - #14 US Country charts)
*Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet (1981 - #32 US, #35 UK)
*Sandra (1987- #5 Germany, #5 Europe, #2 Israel, #45 UK)
*U2 (1989 - #11 US Modern Rock)
*Worlds Apart (1993 - #20 UK)
*David Essex (1993)
*Gloria Estefan (1995 - #27 US, #19 UK)
*The Cast of Casualty (1998 - #5 UK)
*Jamie Cullum (2004 - #20 UK)
*Scooter (2005)
*Kerry Norton (2005)
*Sandra (ballad version) (2006)
*Mysterio (2005 Extended Version)

andra version

Infobox Single
Name = Everlasting Love


Cover size =
Border =
Caption = 7"-Single
Artist = Sandra
Album =
A-side =
B-side = "Change Your Mind"
Released = 1987
Format = 7" single
12" maxi
CD maxi
Recorded =
Genre = Synthpop
Length = 3:49
Label = Virgin
VEB / Amiga
Writer = Mac Gayden
Buzz Cason
Producer = Michael Cretu
Audio sample? =
Certification = Silver France, 1988
Last single = "Midnight Man"
(1987)
This single = "Everlasting Love"
(1987)
Next single = "Stop for a Minute"
(1988)
Misc =

In 1987, Sandra Cretu covered the song which had a great success in many countries, including Germany and Switzerland where it reached #5, and Austria, where it peaked at #6.

The song was re-recorded in 1988 in a remixed version and in 2006 as a ballad.

Track listings

¹ PWL Hammond mix

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

References

External links

* [http://www.theloveaffair.co.uk/ Love Affair Website]
* [http://www.steveellis.co.uk/ Steve Ellis Official Website]
* [http://www.geocities.com/weslarkins/glorialibre.html/ Gloria Estefan Discography Database]