Everlasting Love 2006
"Everlasting Love" |
Single by Rex Smith/ Rachel Sweet
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from the album 1)Everlasting Love Rex Smith 2)...And Then He Kissed Me Rachel Sweet
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B-side |
(double B-side)"Still Thinking of
You" Rex Smith/ "Billy and the Gun" Rachel Sweet
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Released |
June 1981 US July 1981 UK August 1981 Australia
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Format |
7" single |
Recorded |
1981 Record Plant (NYC)
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Genre |
Pop |
Length |
3:44 (single edit 3:29) |
Label |
Columbia Records |
Songwriter(s) |
Buzz Cason Mac Gayden
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Producer(s) |
Rick Chertoff |
Rex Smith singles chronology |
"Woman"
(1980) |
"Everlasting Love"
(1981) |
"Remember the Love Songs"
(1981) |
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"Woman"
(1980) |
"Everlasting Love"
(1981) |
"Remember the Love Songs"
(1981) |
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Rachel Sweet singles chronology |
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"Everlasting Love" is a song written by Buzz Cason and Mac Gayden, originally a 1967 hit for Robert Knight and since remade several times, most successfully by the Love Affair, as well as Town Criers, Carl Carlton, and Sandra. In 1989, U2 released a version of "Everlasting Love" as a B-side on various formats of the "All I Want Is You" single.
The original version of "Everlasting Love" was recorded in Nashville by Robert Knight, 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. Ultimately "Everlasting Love" was released as an A-side for Knight and reached #13 in 1967. Subsequently, the song has reached the US Top 40 three times, most successfully by Carl Carlton, who peaked at #6 in 1974, with more moderate success afforded later remakes by Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet (#32/ 1981) and Gloria Estefan (#27/ 1995).
In the UK "Everlasting Love" was covered by the Love Affair and achieved #1 status in January 1968. Although that version eclipsed the Robert Knight original, which stalled at #40, Knight's version was reissued in 1974 and reached #19 UK. Also in 1968, a cover by the Australian group, Town Criers, reached #2 in the Australian charts.
A 1981 duet version, sung by Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet, reached #35 UK, and in the 1990s "Everlasting Love" reached the UK Top 20 three times via remakes by Worlds Apart (#20/ 1993), Gloria Estefan (#19/ 1995) and, most successfully, a charity single by the cast from Casualty that reached #5 in 1998. In 2004, Jamie Cullum reached #20 with his version.
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