Easy to Love (Leo Sayer song)

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"Easy to Love"
Easy to Love - Leo Sayer.jpg
Single by Leo Sayer
from the album Thunder in My Heart
B-side "Haunting Me"
ReleasedDecember 1977
Recorded1977
Genre Pop, soft rock
Length3:44
Label Island
Songwriter(s) Leo Sayer, Albert Hammond
Producer(s) Richard Perry
Leo Sayer singles chronology
"Thunder in My Heart"
(1977)
"Easy to Love"
(1977)
"Raining in My Heart"
(1978)

"Easy to Love" is a song recorded by Leo Sayer for the album Thunder in My Heart , and originally released as a single in 1977. It was co-written by Sayer with Albert Hammond. It was the second single from the LP, the follow-up to the title track.

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"Easy to Love" reached number 36 in the United States and number 35 in Canada. [1] [2] It did best in New Zealand, where it spent 10 weeks in the Top 40 and peaked at number 19. [3]

Reception

Cash Box magazine said "The second single from the Thunder in My Heart LP has a strong R&B/disco flavour to it and features the Sayer falsetto that has been so popular on his last two or three hits". [4]

Personnel

Chart history

Chart (1977–78)Peak
position
Canada RPM Top Singles [2] 35
New Zealand (RIANZ) [3] 19
U.S. Pop Singles [1] 36

Cover versions

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References

  1. 1 2 Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN   0-89820-089-X
  2. 1 2 "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1978-02-18. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  3. 1 2 Flavour of New Zealand, 21 May 1978
  4. "Single Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box . 12 November 1977. p. 24. Retrieved 25 November 2021 via World Radio History.
  5. Thunder in My Heart (Album credits). Warner Bros. 1977.
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