Truly (song)

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Name = Truly


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Artist = Lionel Richie
Album = Lionel Richie
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Released = 1982
Format = 7" (45 rpm)
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Genre = R&B, Adult contemporary
Length = 3:26
Label = Motown Records
Writer = Lionel Richie
Producer = Lionel Richie, James Anthony Carmichael
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Last single = "Endless Love"
(1981)
This single = "Truly"
(1982)
Next single = "You Are"
(1982)
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"Truly" is the title of the debut solo single by R&B singer-songwriter Lionel Richie in 1982 (see 1982 in music). Richie wrote the song and co-produced it with James Anthony Carmichael.

Released as the first single from his self-titled debut album in 1982, "Truly" went to #1 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart for two weeks near the end of 1982. [Whitburn, Joel (1996). "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits", 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)] It also spent four weeks at #1 on the adult contemporary chart [Hyatt, Wesley (1999). "The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits" (Billboard Publications)] and logged nine weeks at #2 on the R&B chart. In addition, "Truly" made the Top 10 in England, where the song peaked at #6. The song won a Grammy Award for Richie in the category Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. Steven Houghton released the same single in March 1998 as it reached number 23 on the UK Charts.

ee also

*Hot 100 number-one hits of 1982 (United States)
*List of Motown number-one singles in the United States

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