Love Is the Answer (Utopia song)

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"Love Is the Answer"
Love is the answer england dan john ford coley US single side-A.png
One of side-A labels of the US single
Single by England Dan & John Ford Coley
from the album Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jive
B-side "Running After You"
ReleasedMarch 1979
Genre
Length4:42
Label Big Tree
Songwriter(s) Todd Rundgren
Producer(s) Kyle Lehning
England Dan & John Ford Coley singles chronology
"Westward Wind"
(1978)
"Love Is the Answer"
(1979)
"What Can I Do with This Broken Heart"
(1979)

"Love Is the Answer" is a song written by Todd Rundgren and performed with his band Utopia. It is the closing track on their 1977 album Oops! Wrong Planet , and was the only single released from the album.

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England Dan & John Ford Coley version

In 1979, American soft rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley released their version as the lead single from their seventh studio album Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jive . It reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart [1] in May 1979 [2] and spent two weeks atop the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. [3] John Ford Coley was quoted as saying: "Of all the songs we released as singles, that was my favorite. The song first of all had a classical base, and the middle had a gospel section which I loved." [3]

Dan Seals, the "England Dan" half of the duo, re-recorded the song in 1995 in an acoustic country music style for the album In a Quiet Room .

Weekly charts

Chart (1979)Rank
US Billboard Hot 100 [4] 10
UK Singles (OCC) [5] 45

Other versions

The song has been covered several times by Christian and mainstream artists.

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References

  1. "Chart Listing For The Week Of Jun 02 1979". Billboard . Retrieved April 4, 2009.
  2. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. May 26, 1979. ISSN   0006-2510 . Retrieved May 13, 2015.
  3. 1 2 Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications), p. 228.
  4. "1979 Talent in Action – Year End Charts : Pop Singles". Billboard. Vol. 91, no. 51. December 22, 1979. p. TIA-10.
  5. "Love Is the Answer | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Official Charts .