Love Overboard

"Love Overboard"
Single by Gladys Knight & the Pips
from the album All Our Love
Released 1987
Format 7" single
12" single
CD single
promo single
Recorded 1987
Genre R&B, dance-pop, soul
Length 5:26
Label MCA
Writer(s) Reginald Calloway
Producer(s) Reggie Calloway & Vincent Calloway for Calloco, Inc.

"Love Overboard" is a Grammy Award-winning 1987 single by Gladys Knight and the Pips. The single was significant because it was the first Top 40 hit for the group in over a decade, and their final Pop Top 40 release as well.

"Love Overboard" was the group's last of ten #1 hits on the Hot Black Singles chart. It crossed over to #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart as well.[1] The single was also successful on the dance charts, peaking at number four.[2] It also peaked at #59 on the Canada RPM Top 100 Singles chart.

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 331.
  2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 147.
Preceded by
"The Way You Make Me Feel" by Michael Jackson
Billboard Hot Black Singles number-one single
January 23, 1988
Succeeded by
"I Want Her" by Keith Sweat


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