Real Love (Doobie Brothers song)

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"Real Love"
Real Love - Doobie Brothers.jpg
Single by Doobie Brothers
from the album One Step Closer
B-side "Thank You Love"
ReleasedAugust 21, 1980 [1]
Recorded1980
Studio Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood, CA
Genre Pop, soft rock
Length4:16
Label Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s) Michael McDonald, Patrick Henderson
Producer(s) Ted Templeman
Doobie Brothers singles chronology
"Dependin' on You"
(1979)
"Real Love"
(1980)
"One Step Closer"
(1980)

"Real Love" is a hit song by The Doobie Brothers, the first of three singles from their 1980 LP, One Step Closer .

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"Real Love" became the greatest hit from the album, reaching #5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 during the fall of the year. It is the group's third highest-charting U.S. single after their two number-one hits, "Black Water" and "What a Fool Believes". The song reached #12 in Canada. It was also a Top 20 Adult Contemporary hit in both nations.

The song became the second of nine songs entitled "Real Love" charting on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 between 1980 and 1996, with the final being the Beatles hit. It is also the second biggest hit with this title, behind Jody Watley's.

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