Everlasting Love

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"Everlasting Love"
Everlasting love by robert knight (US single side A).png
One of side-A labels of the US single
Single by Robert Knight
from the album Everlasting Love
B-side "Somebody's Baby"
ReleasedJuly 1967
Recorded1967
Studio Fred Foster Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre Soul, pop
Length2:54
Label
  • Rising Sons (RS45-705)
  • Monument (MON 1008)
Songwriter(s) Buzz Cason, Mac Gayden
Producer(s) Buzz Cason, Mac Gayden
Robert Knight singles chronology
"Everlasting Love"
(1967)		"Blessed Are the Lonely"
(1968)
Official audio
"Everlasting Love" on YouTube

"Everlasting Love" is a song written by Buzz Cason and Mac Gayden, originally a 1967 hit for Robert Knight and since covered numerous times. The most successful version in the UK was performed by Love Affair and the highest-charting version in the U.S. was performed by Carl Carlton. Other cover versions were done by Town Criers, Rex Smith & Rachel Sweet, Sandra Cretu, U2 and Gloria Estefan.

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The original version of "Everlasting Love" was recorded by Knight in Nashville, with Cason and Gayden aiming to produce it in a Motown style reminiscent of the Four Tops and the Temptations. When released as a single in the U.S., the song reached No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967. Subsequently, the song has reached the U.S. top 40 three times, most successfully as performed by Carl Carlton, peaking at No. 6 in 1974, with more moderate success by the duo Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet (No. 32 in 1981) and Gloria Estefan (No. 27 in 1995).

In the UK, "Everlasting Love" was covered by the Love Affair: it achieved No. 1 status in January 1968, eclipsing the Robert Knight original. Also in 1968, a cover by the Australian group Town Criers reached No. 2 in the Australian charts. In the 1990s "Everlasting Love" reached the UK top 20 three times via remakes by Worlds Apart (No. 20 in 1993), Gloria Estefan (No. 19 in 1995) and, most successfully, a charity single by the cast from Casualty that reached No. 5 in 1998. In 2004, Jamie Cullum's version peaked at No. 20. Thus, "Everlasting Love" is one of two songs to become a Billboard Hot 100 top 40 hit in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s (the other being "The Way You Do the Things You Do") and the only song to become a UK top 40 hit in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.

Robert Knight version

The original version of "Everlasting Love" was recorded at the Fred Foster Sound Studio in Nashville. According to Cason, the track "had some different sounds on it that, for the time period, were kind of innovative. The string sound is actually a Farfisa organ that Mac came up with, and we used a lot of echo." [1] Robert Knight recalls: "Buzz was into country [music] but Mac was R&B... so we made it more of an R&B song like the rhythm and melody Mac had. I practiced and practiced on with Mac, as he had written the song for my voice and made it mine. Mac used his bandmates: [drummer] Kenny Buttrey, [bassist] Norbert Putnam, Charlie McCoy and himself on guitar." [2] The background vocals on the song were performed by Buzz Cason and Carol Montgomery. Robert Knight recalls that he heard "Everlasting Love" for the first time at the actual recording session: "I didn't sing it the [as] written[:] I made some changes to fit my voice, and I didn't do it note for note. They had the melody going too fast, and it was jamming, it wasn't doing right, it wasn't sounding right. So I started what you call a steady step. I start singing a beat and a half: 'hearts-go-a-stray' – like that. It wasn't like that in the beginning, and I think that's what got 'Everlasting Love' off the ground." [3]

Debuting on the Billboard Hot 100 dated September 30, 1967, "Everlasting Love" had already reached No. 1 in Philadelphia and Detroit by the time of its top 40 debut on October 21, 1967. Cason admitted that the single "drove ... the promotion guys nuts since it hit in one market then several weeks later pop up somewhere else." [4] The track spent its second week at its Hot 100 peak of No. 13 on the chart dated November 25, 1967 then dropped off the Hot 100 over the next three weeks. The R&B chart peak of "Everlasting Love" was No. 14. In its original release, Knight's "Everlasting Love" lost out in the UK to a cover by Love Affair, although Knight's version did spend two weeks at No. 40 UK in January 1968. In the spring of 1974, Knight's "Everlasting Love" had a second UK release to follow up the Top Ten success of the reissue of Knight's "Love on a Mountain Top"; this time the first-named track reached No. 19.

An airplay staple on American oldies radio stations (though less so than the 1974 Carl Carlton version), Knight's "Everlasting Love" has become a "cult favorite" of the beach music scene. In a 2011 interview, Buzz Cason stated that the Robert Knight original of "Everlasting Love" remained Cason's favorite version of the song: "I just think Robert's was the one [version] that had the magic in it." [1]

Charts

Love Affair version

"Everlasting Love"
Everlasting Love by The Love Affair (UK single side A).png
Solid center variant of the UK single
Single by the Love Affair
from the album The Everlasting Love Affair
B-side "Gone Are the Songs of Yesterday"
ReleasedDecember 8, 1967
Recorded1967
Studio Island, London
Genre Pop-soul [10]
Length3:03
Label CBS (3125)
Songwriter(s) Buzz Cason, Mac Gayden
Producer(s) Mike Smith, Keith Mansfield [11]
The Love Affair singles chronology
"She Smiled Sweetly"
(1967)		"Everlasting Love"
(1967)		"Rainbow Valley"
(1968)
Music video
"Everlasting Love" on YouTube
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Love Affair, 1968

"Everlasting Love" was recorded by Love Affair in 1967. According to the band's lead vocalist Steve Ellis: "We had two managers, David Wedgebury and John Cokell, who both worked at Decca [and] had access to all the imports on the Monument label. We rehearsed in a factory in Walthamstow and one night they turned up with 'Everlasting Love' by Robert Knight. I loved it and so we set about putting it down on tape." [12] Muff Winwood produced the original Love Affair version of "Everlasting Love" which was recorded at Island Studios and featured the group's actual members: Island Records passed on releasing the track but CBS in-house producer Mike Smith - after failing to interest his regular clients Marmalade in recording the song (which Marmalade deemed "too poppy") - cut a new Love Affair version of "Everlasting Love".

The second Love Affair recording of "Everlasting Love" in fact featured only one member of the group: lead vocalist Steve Ellis who fronted a session ensemble comprising arranger/conductor Keith Mansfield's 40-piece orchestra plus a rhythm section, the session musicians including Peter Ahern (triangle percussion), Clem Cattini (drums), Alan Parker (guitar), Russ Stableford (bass), and a chorale comprising Madeline Bell, Kiki Dee, Lesley Duncan, and Kay Garner: the track was recorded in two takes. [13] Mike Smith would eventually attribute the non-utilization of the actual musicians in Love Affair to the need for expediency, arguing that "there just wasn't time for the group to learn the arrangement, so we used session musicians", [14] a UK release for the Robert Knight original version being imminent. [11]

Debuting on the UK Top 50 dated 3 January, 1968, "Everlasting Love" by the Love Affair rose to No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart for a two-week stay from 31 January. [15] The track was also a Top 20 hit in a number of other European countries in 1968.

When the Love Affair appeared on the ITV programme Good Evening I'm Jonathan King host Jonathan King asked group bassist Mick Jackson if the band had actually played on their hit recording of "Everlasting Love" and Jackson admitted the track had featured Ellis backed by session musicians. Steve Ellis has stated that Jonathan King was aware of the background of the Love Affair hit and ambushed Mick Jackson to invoke controversy, although Jackson would state: "We announced it ourselves because there were rumours about it in the business and we heard a Sunday newspaper was going to blow the story". Jackson also stated: "At first we didn’t worry that much when the story about us not playing came out... Then the thing escalated and people all over the place started slagging us. We got to regard it as a terrible nuisance, every time we opened a paper there was someone having a go at the Love Affair." [14] The bad press had little if any negative impact on the band's popularity: [11] their follow-up to "Everlasting Love", "Rainbow Valley" – another Cason/Gayden composition introduced by Robert Knight – reached number 5 in the UK and the additional success of "A Day Without Love" (number 6) made Love Affair the UK's top group in singles sales for 1968, apart from the Beatles. [16] (The Love Affair singles continued to feature Ellis fronting a session ensemble with no other group members participating.)

All of these singles were released by CBS in the label's native United States on its Date Records subsidiary. However, despite their popularity in Europe, none of the Love Affair's singles charted in the US. [17]

Charts

Chart (1968)Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [18] 12
Belgium (Ultratop Flanders) [19] 15
Belgium (Ultratop Wallonia) [20] 31
Canada (RPM) [21] 25
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [22] 13
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [23] 12
New Zealand ( Listener ) [24] 4
Norway (VG-lista) [25] 6
Switzerland (Swiss Hitparade) [26] 6
UK Singles (OCC) [15] 1
West Germany (Media Control) [18] 12

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [27] Gold400,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Carl Carlton version

"Everlasting Love"
Everlasting Love by Carl Carlton (US single side-A).png
One of pressings of the US single
Single by Carl Carlton
from the album Everlasting Love
B-side "I Wanna Be Your Main Squeeze"
ReleasedJuly 1974
RecordedOctober 1973
Studio Creative Workshop, Berry Hill, Tennessee
Genre Disco
Length2:36
Label Back Beat (BB 27001)
Songwriter(s) Buzz Cason, Mac Gayden
Producer(s) Papa Don Schroeder, Tommy Cogbill
Carl Carlton singles chronology
"You Can't Stop a Man in Love"
(1973)		"Everlasting Love"
(1974)		"Smokin' Room"
(1974)
Carl Carlton, 1968 Carl Carlton.png
Carl Carlton, 1968

Carl Carlton recorded "Everlasting Love" in October 1973 at the Berry Hill (Tenn) studio Creative Workshop, [28] which was owned by Buzz Cason; however, Cason was not involved in the recording of Carlton's version - the singer had himself chosen to record "Everlasting Love", which he knew via the version on David Ruffin's 1969 album My Whole World Ended. Produced by Papa Don Schroeder and Tommy Cogbill, Carlton's cover features Hayward Bishop on drums and percussion, Cogbill on bass, and Reggie Young on guitar. The recording was engineered by Travis Turk. The track features a distinctive countermelody running through most of the song consisting of background vocal harmonies. Brenda Russell is among the background vocalists.

Carlton's original recording of "Everlasting Love" was issued as the B-side of the 1973 single "I Wanna Be Your Main Squeeze"; the track (i.e. "Everlasting Love") was then issued in July 1974 as an A-side after having been given a disco style remix, and became a discothèque favorite before breaking on the Hot 100 in September 1974 to proceed to a No. 6 peak that November, almost reaching the R&B Top 10 at No. 11.

Carlton's version of "Everlasting Love" is the most successful US release of the song. It remains an airplay favorite on American oldies radio stations. According to Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI), the 1974 Carl Carlton version has been played more than 4 million times. One of the earliest pop hits to crossover from disco airplay, Carlton's "Everlasting Love" is a staple of disco compilations, including the second installment of the Pure Disco CD compilation series.

Charts

Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet version

A. "Everlasting Love" – 3:49
B. "Change Your Mind" – 4:04
A. "Everlasting Love" (Extended Version) – 7:27
B1. "Change Your Mind" – 4:04
B2. "Everlasting Love" (Single Version) – 3:49
A. "Everlasting Love" (PWL 7") – 3:57
B. "Stop for a Minute" – 3:49
A1. "Everlasting Love" (PWL 12") – 7:46
A2. "Everlasting Love" (PWL 7") – 3:57
B1. "Everlasting Love" (PWL Dub) – 6:57
B2. "Stop for a Minute" – 3:49
  1. "Everlasting Love" – 3:57
  2. "Stop for a Minute" – 3:51
  3. "Everlasting Love" (Remix) – 7:40
  4. "(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena" – 3:58

Charts

"Everlasting Love"
Everlasting Love - Rex Smith & Rachel Sweet.jpg
Single by Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet
from the album
  • Everlasting Love (Rex Smith) and
  • ...And Then He Kissed Me (Rachel Sweet)
B-side "Still Thinking of You", "Billy and the Gun"
ReleasedJune 1981
Recorded1981
Studio Record Plant (NYC)
Genre Pop
Length3:44 (single edit 3:29)
Label Columbia (18-02169)
Songwriter(s) Mac Gayden, Buzz Cason
Producer(s) Rick Chertoff
Rex Smithsingles chronology
"Let's Make a Memory"
(1979)		"Everlasting Love"
(1981)		"Remember the Love Songs"
(1981)
Rachel Sweetsingles chronology
"Spellbound"
(1980)		"Everlasting Love"
(1981)		"Then He Kissed Me-Be My Baby"
(1981)

Certifications

Certifications for Everlasting Love
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Belgium (BEA) [72] Gold25,000*
France (SNEP) [73] Silver250,000*
Germany (BVMI) [74] Gold250,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Gloria Estefan version

"Everlasting Love"
Everlasting Love Single Cover.jpg
Single by Gloria Estefan
from the album Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
B-side "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
ReleasedJanuary 3, 1995 (1995-01-03)
Genre
Length4:01
Label Epic
Songwriter(s)
Gloria Estefan singles chronology
"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me"
(1994)		"Everlasting Love"
(1995)		"It's Too Late"
(1995)
Music video
"Everlasting Love" on YouTube

"Everlasting Love" was recorded by Cuban-American singer and songwriter Gloria Estefan for her fifth studio album, Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me (1994), which comprised remakes of well-known hits. "Everlasting Love" was the second US single following "Turn the Beat Around" (in some territories, including the UK, "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" was the album's second single precedent to "Everlasting Love"). The single was first released in the US on January 3, 1995, and in the UK on February 6, 1995.

"Everlasting Love" peaked at number 27 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in March 1995 and also topped the Hot Dance Club Play chart. In the UK, "Everlasting Love" peaked at number 19 in February 1995. The single also peaked at number 12 in Iceland and number 16 in Scotland. As she had given birth a month prior to the song's release, Estefan did little promotion in support of the song, performing it only once on the February 19 UK broadcast of Top of the Pops . She would later go on to perform it on the Evolution World Tour in 1996. Australian music channel Max included Estefan's version in their list of "1000 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2011. [75]

Critical reception

Larry Flick from Billboard described the song as "another dance-charged bauble", noting that it is given "a festive hi-NRG treatment that has clearly inspired Estefan to deliver one of her most relaxed and playful performances to date." [76] Steve Baltin from Cash Box commented, "It’s a fool-proof hit, featuring basic love song lyrics and a very catchy hook. [...] A hit once again, both for the song and Estefan." [77] Josef Woodard from Entertainment Weekly stated that the singer's "easygoing charms still do the trick" on "Everlasting Love". [78] Fell and Rufer from the Gavin Report felt that "Gloria remains in a retro mode for this up 'n' at 'ern version of a pop classic that's been a hit more than once before. This is a fully-involved production with more beats-per-minute than anything she's ever recorded. It's fun and can even be played by the few who avoided the first single, 'Turn the Beat Around'." [79]

Chuck Campbell from Knoxville News Sentinel viewed it as "a charismatic, twisting dance song". [80] Alan Jones from Music Week said, "It is undoubtedly a great song and Gloria gives it her all, though the regular mix's uninspiring arrangement lets it down a little." [81] John Kilgo from The Network Forty wrote that "it's hard to believe that it's been two decades since Carl Carlton bounced onto the Top 40 scene with this Top-10 tune. Now Estefan sprinkles her "Miami" spice on the classic, updating the dance number with a '90s sound." [82] A reviewer from People Magazine described it as a "technofied take". [83] Phil Shanklin of ReviewsRevues felt the singer "reactivates the track into a disco classic and it is so uplifting that I think her version is the best of all of them." [84]

Music video

The accompanying music video for "Everlasting Love" was shot at the Sunset Studios in Hollywood, California. Estefan, pregnant with her second child at the time, [85] could not appear in the video. The production team, which included co-directors Tony Minnelli and Paul Lynde along with Estefan, decided to give the video a twist. They selected some of the best drag talent from West Hollywood, California to star in the video. Five impersonators, three male and two female, appeared as Gloria Estefan, each representing a different stage in Estefan's career. [86] Some notable video cast members include female impersonator Julian Viva, Hollywood Super Club Kids, and The Fabulous Wonder Twins. It also includes drag performers Venus D-Lite and Raja Gemini, who later appeared in season 3 of RuPaul's Drag Race . Estefan included cast members Julian Viva and Willie E. on her Evolution World Tour which began the following year. [87]

Gloria Estefan went on to receive an award for Dance Clip of the Year at the Billboard Music Video Awards in November 1995. [88] Cyndi Lauper has since insinuated that the idea of featuring drag performers in the clip was inspired by her own video "Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)" released a few months earlier. [89]

Formats and track listings

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United StatesJanuary 3, 1995
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
 Epic [ citation needed ]
United KingdomFebruary 6, 1995 [105]

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