Love Is Alive (Gary Wright song)

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"Love Is Alive"
Love Is Alive - Gary Wright.jpg
Single by Gary Wright
from the album The Dream Weaver
B-side"Much Higher"
ReleasedApril 1976
Length3:54 (album)
3:24 (single)
LabelWarner Bros.
Songwriter(s)Gary Wright
Producer(s)Gary Wright
Gary Wright singles chronology
"Dream Weaver"
(1975) 		"Love Is Alive"
(1976) 		"Made to Love You"
(1976)

"Love Is Alive" is a song by Gary Wright taken from the 1975 album The Dream Weaver. It features Wright on vocals and keyboards with Andy Newmark on drums. The album's title cut and "Love Is Alive" both peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[1] "Love Is Alive" spent 27 weeks on the chart, seven weeks longer than "Dream Weaver". Billboard ranked "Love Is Alive" as the No. 9 song of 1976.

In the US, "Love Is Alive" peaked at number two on the Hot 100.[1] "Kiss and Say Goodbye" by The Manhattans and "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John and Kiki Dee kept it from the number one spot.[2] In Canada, the song reached No. 6.[3]

Chart performance[]

Covers[]

  • In 1991, Joe Cocker covered "Love Is Alive" on his Night Calls LP. Released as a single, it reached number 72 in Canada and number 7 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart in the summer of 1992.
  • In 1997, dance act 3rd Party recorded the song for their debut album Alive which charted on the Billboard Hot 100. This version peaked at number 19 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music chart.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c [Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Billboard Hot 100 1959-2004]
  2. ^ Hot 100: Week of July 31, 1976 billboard.com
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  4. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 343. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  5. ^ "Top Singles – Volume 26, No. 14 & 15, January 08 1977". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Archived from the original on March 19, 2016. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
  6. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1976". Retrieved 2016-10-05.
  7. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 257.

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