Love Ballad (L.T.D. song)
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"Love Ballad" is a hit song for R&B/Funk band L.T.D.
L.T.D.
L.T.D. is an American R&B/funk band best known for their 1977 hit single, " Back in Love Again," as well as their many ballads, such as "Love Ballad," "We Both Deserve Each Other's Love," and "Where Did We Go Wrong?."-Career:L.T.D...

. Released from their album, Love to the World
Love to the World
On their third release, L.T.D. hooked up with The Mizell Brothers, "Larry and Fonce" behind the boards to produce "Love To The World". The album would chart on number 7 on the R&B album charts...

, it spent two weeks at number one on the R&B singles chart in November 1976, and peaked at number twenty on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

 singles chart.

Cover version

  • George Benson
    George Benson
    George Benson is a ten Grammy Award winning American musician, whose production career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist....

     released an up-tempo cover version in 1979. It peaked at number three on the R&B charts and number eighteen on the Billboard Hot 100.
  • Tanya Blount
    Tanya Blount
    -Early life and education:Morgan State University, where she majored in psychology and sang in the university choir.-Career:She secured a major recording deal with Polydor now Island/Def Jam Records at age 19 and by 20 was featured in the film Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, where she performed a...

     did a well-received cover of the song on her debut album in 1993.
  • K-Ci and Jojo
    K-Ci and JoJo
    K-Ci & JoJo are an American R&B duo, consisting of brothers Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey and Joel "JoJo" Hailey , Natives of Monroe, North Carolina, they were also members of the chart-topping R&B group Jodeci with the DeGrate brothers—Donald and Dalvin.-On their own:K-Ci and JoJo's first sign of...

     covered this song on their 1997 album Love Always.
  • The Temptations covered the song on their 2007 album Back To Front.
  • Kenny Lattimore
    Kenny Lattimore
    Kenny Lattimore is an American R&B singer. Among his most popular hits were "Never Too Busy" and "For You".- Early career :...

     and Chanté Moore
    Chanté Moore
    Chanté Moore is an American R&B and jazz singer.-Biography:Born to a gospel minister, she grew up singing in the church and was heavily influenced by the music of George Duke and Lee Ritenour. While in high school, she decided to make a career of singing...

     covered this song on their 2006 album Uncovered
    Uncovered
    Uncovered may refer to:* Uncovered , 1980*Uncovered , 2006*Uncovered , 1994* Uncovered , a UK magazine dealing with mental health and Wellness issues...

    . As did Patti Labelle
    Patti LaBelle
    Patricia Louise Holte-Edwards , better known under the stage name, Patti LaBelle, is a Grammy Award winning American singer, author and actress who has spent over 50 years in the music industry...

     on her 2005 album of covers, Classic Moments.
  • J Dilla
    J Dilla
    James Dewitt Yancey , better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee, was an American record producer who emerged from the mid-1990s underground hip hop scene in Detroit, Michigan...

     sampled this song for De La Soul
    De La Soul
    De La Soul is an American hip hop trio formed in 1987 on Long Island, New York. The band is best known for their eclectic sampling, quirky lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres...

     in 2004 on their LP The Grind Date
    The Grind Date
    The Grind Date is the seventh album from hip-hop group De La Soul, released on October 5, 2004. The album was originally intended to be the final album of the Art Official Intelligence trilogy, but as the album quickly changed focus, the group decided to put AOI III on hold and finish The Grind...

    .
  • R&B singer Ciara
    Ciara
    Ciara Princess Harris , known mononymously as Ciara, is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, actress and fashion model. Born in Austin, Texas, she traveled around the world during her childhood, only to land in Atlanta, Georgia where she met music producer, Jazze Pha...

     sampled the song on her 2004 debut Goodies
    Goodies (album)
    Goodies is the debut studio album by American recording artist Ciara. It was released on September 28, 2004 via LaFace Records. After writing songs for several established acts, Ciara's talents were noticed by Jazze Pha, and she began to work on what became Goodies...

    .

External links

  • [ Song Review] on the Allmusic website
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