Is It Love You're After?

"Is It Love You're After?"
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	Miles Gregory
Rose Royce singles chronology
"First Come, First Serve" (1979) "Is It Love You're After?" (1979) "What You Waitin' For" (1979)
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 (1979—1980)	Peak Position
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

1. Henderson, Alex. Rainbow Connection IV review at AllMusic . Retrieved 2012-05-08.
2. "officialcharts.com". officialcharts.com. Retrieved October 31, 2022.
3. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research. p. 501.
4. "www.whosampled.com" . Retrieved October 31, 2022.