Penny Lover
| "Penny Lover" | ||||
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| Single by Lionel Richie | ||||
| from the album Can't Slow Down | ||||
| B-side | "Tell Me" | |||
| Released | September 30. 1984 | |||
| Format | 7" (45 rpm) | |||
| Recorded | 1983 | |||
| Genre | Pop, adult contemporary | |||
| Length | 3:46 (single version) 5:35 (album version) |
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| Label | Motown Records | |||
| Writer(s) | Lionel Richie Brenda Harvey Richie |
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| Producer(s) | Lionel Richie James Anthony Carmichael |
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"Penny Lover" is the title of the fifth and final single released from Lionel Richie's multi-platinum and Grammy Award-winning 1983 album, Can't Slow Down. The song was written by Richie and his then-wife, Brenda Harvey Richie.
As with all the other singles taken from Can't Slow Down ("All Night Long (All Night)", "Running with the Night", "Hello" and "Stuck on You"), "Penny Lover" was a top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, spending two weeks at #8 in December 1984.[1] The song reached an identical #8 peak position on the Billboard R&B chart, while on the Billboard adult contemporary chart, the song logged four weeks at #1.[2] On the UK Singles Chart, the song reached #18.[3]
In a song review printed in Billboard by an anonymous writer in 1984, "Penny Lover" was described as "another of his unfailingly effective universal-appeal ballads."[2]
Music video
The music video was directed by Bob Giraldi, who had also directed "Running with the Night" and "Hello".
See also
References
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 529.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications), page 288.
- ↑ UK Singles Chart info from chartstats.com Retrieved 24 March 2009.
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