With Luv' | ||||
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Studio album by Luv' | ||||
Released | August 1978 2006 (Remastered, as part of the Completely In Luv' box set) |
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Recorded | 1977 - 1978 | |||
Genre | Pop, disco | |||
Length | 40:47 | |||
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Philips Records/Phonogram (original release) Universal Music Netherlands |
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Producer | Hans van Hemert | |||
Luv' chronology | ||||
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Singles from With Luv' | ||||
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With Luv' is the first album by the Dutch girl group Luv', released in August 1978 by Phonogram/Philips Records. It includes the hit singles "My Man" (the trio's first record), "U.O.Me" (Luv's breakthrough in Benelux) and the million-seller "You're the Greatest Lover (a #1 song in a large part of Continental Europe). A German pressing of this album features Trojan Horse", a successful European chart topper. In 2006, this LP was reissued in digitally remastered form by Universal Music Netherlands as part of the Completely In Luv' box set.
After achieving success on the Dutch and Flemish charts (with the singles "My Man" and "U.O.Me") and on the European hit lists (with the single "You're the Greatest Lover"), Phonogram/Philips Records decided to release Luv's first full-length studio album: With Luv'.
Production was supervised by Hans van Hemert with the help of Piet Souer. Van Hemert and Souer co-wrote all the album's tracks under the pseudonym Janschen & Janschens with the exception of "Don Juanito de Carnaval" (a cover version of Raffaella Carrà's 1977 hit, "A far l'amore comincia tu"). The arrangements of the album were inspired by the music styles that were popular on the mainstream music market in the late 1970s: the ABBA-esque repertoire (especially with "My Man" and "Dream, Dream"), carnival, Spanish and Latin American music sounds (with "U.O.Me" and "Don Juanito De Carnaval"), disco music (with "Everybody's Shaking Hands On Broadway") and pop music (with compositions like "You're the Greatest Lover" and "Who Do You Wanna Be").