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| Single by Steve "Silk" Hurley & The Voices of Life featuring Sharon Pass | ||||
| B-side | "Remix" | |||
| Released | 1997 | |||
| Recorded | 1997 | |||
| Genre | Chicago house | |||
| Length | 3:32 | |||
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"The Word Is Love (Say The Word)" is a 1997 house music song by Steve "Silk" Hurley, released under the alias Steve "Silk" Hurley & The Voices of Life, featuring vocals by Sharon Pass.
Apart from others record companies, the single was released on the producer's own label Silk Entertainment in several editions. The composition written by Hurley himself along with M-Doc didn't catch much attention in US. In the overseas, it scored a modest success on the UK Singles Chart, where the single peaked at number twenty-six in March 1998. [1]
| Chart (1998) | Peak position |
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| Italian Singles Chart [2] | 15 |
| UK Singles Chart | 26 |
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