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"Love Will Keep Us Together"
#1 weeks: 4
weeks: 1975-06-21, 1975-06-28, 1975-07-05, 1975-07-12
genre: pop
artist: Captain & Tennille
album: Love Will Keep Us Together
writers: Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield
producers: Daryl Dragon
label:
formats: 7"

"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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