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Livin' for the Weekend (The O'Jays song)

"Livin' for the Weekend"
Single by The O'Jays
from the album Family Reunion
B-side "Stairway to Heaven"
Released February 1976
Genre R&B, Philly soul, disco
Length 2:50 (single edit)
6:35 (album version)
Label Philadelphia International
Songwriter(s) Kenny Gamble, Cary Gilbert, Leon Huff
Producer(s) Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff
The O'Jays singles chronology
"I Love Music"
(1975)
"Livin' for the Weekend"
(1976)
"Family Reunion"
(1976)
"I Love Music"
(1975)
"Livin' for the Weekend"
(1976)
"Family Reunion"
(1976)

"Livin' for the Weekend" is a song by American R&B vocal group The O'Jays, released also the second single from their eleventh album Family Reunion (1975). It spent two weeks at number one on the R&B singles chart in the spring of that year. It was also successful on the pop charts, peaking at number twenty on the Billboard Hot 100. The B-side of the single, "Stairway to Heaven", proved to be just as popular. It has become a staple of Quiet Storm and adult contemporary R&B radio.



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