Cool Love

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"Cool Love"
Single by Pablo Cruise
from the album Reflector
B-side "Jenny"
Released 1981
Genre Rock
Length3:52
Label A&M
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Tom Dowd
Pablo Cruise singles chronology
" I Want You Tonight "
(1979)
"Cool Love"
(1981)
"Slip Away"
(1981)

Cool Love is a song by American rock group Pablo Cruise, from their album Reflector in 1981 (see 1981 in music).

Contents

Background

David Jenkins sings the lead vocal on this ballad, telling his lover some of the ways their love is "cool" and summing it up that "cool love baby, that's what it's all about."

Charts

It was released as a single, the fifth and final Top 40 hit for the band, and reached No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Weekly charts

Chart (1981)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [1] 91
U.S. Billboard Hot 10013
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles [2] 78

Year-end charts

Year-end chart (1981)Rank
US Top Pop Singles (Billboard) [3] 80

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References

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  2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 447.
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