"Love Will Keep Us Together" is a popular song written by
Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield in 1973. It was first
released in the United Kingdom on Sedaka's 1973 LP
The Tra-La Days Are Over, which was never released in
the U.S. The song arrived in the U.S. the following year when
it appeared on Sedaka's compilation album
Sedaka's Back.
Although Sedaka (and Wilson Pickett) recorded the song
earlier in the 1970s, it is best remembered for the subsequent
1975 cover version by The Captain & Tennille. It was their
debut single, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week
ending June 21, 1975 and remaining in the top position for four
weeks, and was the top US single for the entire year. Their
recording also received a Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
"The Captain," aka Daryl Dragon, and Toni Tennille acknowledged
Sedaka's authorship as well as his mid-1970s comeback by
working the phrase "Sedaka is back" into the song's fadeout.
The Spanish version of the song, "Por Amor Viviremos", was
released as well during the summer of 1975 and charted as high
as number 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song was
released as the only single from the LP "Por Amor Viviremos"
which was the same LP as "Love Will Keep Us Together", only
rerecorded entirely in Spanish.
In 1976, The Tubes covered "Love Will Keep Us Together" with
a live show track on the album "T.R.A.S.H.". In the 1978 Mae
West movie Sextette, West and Timothy Dalton cover the tune in
a Disco style. In 1983, The Circle Jerks covered "Love Will
Keep Us Together" as one of the six cover versions on "Golden
Shower of Hits (Jerks on 45)", which appears on their third
album with the same title. The song was also covered by
Nickelback in 2001 for the Andrew Denton Breakfast Show Musical
Challenge on Sydney, Australia's version of radio station
Triple M, and was later added as a bonus track on some versions
of their 2003 album The Long Road.
In 1999, French singer Sheila, who is best known
internationally as Sheila B.Devotion ('Spacer' 1979), covered
the song for her album 'Dense'. The song was released as a cd
single and 12 inch with remixes in the Summer of 2000 (EMI
France).
The song was featured on the video game Karaoke Revolution
Presents: American Idol.
The song was also featured as the opening of film
Get Over Itstarring Kirsten Dunst. It appears in Starsky
and Hutch (2004) , Sextette (1978) and House Arrest (1996).
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Knife" ·
"Theme from A Summer
Place" ·
"Moon River" ·
"I Left My Heart in San
Francisco" ·
"Days of Wine and
Roses" ·
"The Girl from
Ipanema" ·
"A Taste of
Honey" ·
"Strangers in the
Night" ·
"Up, Up and
Away" ·
"Mrs. Robinson"
"Aquarius/Let the Sunshine
In" ·
"Bridge over Troubled
Water" ·
"It's Too
Late" ·
"The First Time Ever I Saw
Your Face" ·
"Killing Me Softly with His
Song" ·
"I Honestly Love
You" ·
"
Love Will Keep Us Together
" ·
"This
Masquerade" ·
"Hotel
California" ·
"Just the Way You
Are"
"What a Fool
Believes" ·
"Sailing" ·
"Bette Davis
Eyes" ·
"Rosanna" ·
"Beat It" ·
"What's Love Got to Do with
It" ·
"We Are the
World" ·
"Higher Love" ·
"Graceland" ·
"Don't Worry, Be
Happy"
"Wind Beneath My
Wings" ·
"Another Day in
Paradise" ·
"Unforgettable" ·
"Tears in
Heaven" ·
"I Will Always Love
You" ·
"All I Wanna
Do" ·
"Kiss from a
Rose" ·
"Change the
World" ·
"Sunny Came
Home" ·
"My Heart Will Go On"
"Smooth" ·
"Beautiful
Day" ·
"Walk On" ·
"Don't Know
Why" ·
"Clocks" ·
"Here We Go
Again" ·
"Boulevard of Broken
Dreams" ·
"Not Ready to Make
Nice" ·
"Rehab" ·
"Please Read the
Letter"
"Use Somebody"