Is It Love You're After?
1979 single by Rose Royce
"Is It Love You're After?" | ||||
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Single by Rose Royce | ||||
from the album Rainbow Connection IV | ||||
B-side | "You Can't Run From Yourself" | |||
Released | 1979 | |||
Recorded | 1979 | |||
Genre | Disco | |||
Length | 3:50 | |||
Label | Warner Bros. Records | |||
Songwriter(s) | Miles Gregory | |||
Rose Royce singles chronology | ||||
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Official video | ||||
"Is It Love You're After?" on YouTube | ||||
"Is It Love You're After?" is a 1979 song by Rose Royce from the 1979 album Rainbow Connection IV,[1] which was the last album with lead singer Gwen Dickey before she left to embark on a solo career. It was also the band's fourth highest-charting single in the UK.
Chart performance
Chart | Peak Position |
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Belgium | 23 |
Ireland | 17 |
Netherlands | 42 |
UK (The Official Charts Company)[2] | 13 |
US | 105 |
US Hot Soul Singles[3] | 31 |
Personnel
- Gwen Dickey – lead vocals
- Kenny Copeland – trumpet
- Kenji Brown – guitar
- Lequeint "Duke" Jobe – bass
- Michael Nash – keyboards
- Henry Garner – drums
- Freddie Dunn – trumpet
- Michael Moore – saxophone
- Terry Santiel – congas
Samples
- The brass riff of the song was sampled for S'Express' 1988 song "Theme From S'Express," which reached no. 1 in the UK.[4]
References
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Rose Royce
- Greatest Hits
- "Car Wash"
- "I Wanna Get Next to You"
- "I'm Going Down"
- "Ooh Boy"
- "Wishing on a Star"
- "Love Don't Live Here Anymore"
- "Is It Love You're After"