Critical reception ĪllMusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine highlighted the track. Although Luther's album was already set to contain one Lionel Richie composition, " Hello", it was obvious that having the most-popular female artist on the Sony label singing on the album would be a benefit. Lionel Richie and Diana Ross had originally recorded "Endless Love" in 1981, and the song spent nine weeks at number 1. To give the album a bigger boost, Mottola's then-wife, Mariah Carey, came up with the idea to remake "Endless Love" as a duet with her. Featuring Vandross' versions of songs like Stephen Stills' " Love the One You're With", Heatwave's " Always and Forever", and Roberta Flack's " Killing Me Softly", the album was shaping up to be a major career accomplishment. Sony Music Entertainment President Tommy Mottola suggested that Vandross record Songs, an album of cover versions. It was released as the second single on August 29, 1994, from Songs. Columbia Records later included the song on Carey's compilation album Greatest Hits (2001) and then again on her next compilation album, The Ballads (2008). At the 1995 Grammy Awards, the song was nominated in the new category of Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, losing to "Funny How Time Slips Away" by Al Green and Lyle Lovett. Walter Afanasieff produced Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey's cover of the song for Vandross' Epic Records-released album Songs (1994), and it is known for being Carey's first "high-profile" duet (an earlier duet, " I'll Be There", was with the then-unknown background singer Trey Lorenz). Problems playing this file? See media help. Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey's "Endless Love" from Songs Single by Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey version "Endless Love" Gene Page – horn, rhythm and string arrangements.
Lionel Richie – lead vocals, vocal arrangements.Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. Richie's solo version was released as track ten on the 2003 remastered bonus edition of his 1982 album.Īll-time charts Chart (1958–2018) Ross recorded a solo version of the song for her first RCA Records album, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, the duet version being her last hit on Motown. It also won a 1982 American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Single. The song was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for Richie, and was the second song with which Ross was involved that was nominated for an Oscar. It is also Richie's biggest charting single, and the first of several hits for him during the 1980s. The soulful composition became the biggest-selling single of Ross' career, and her 18th and final career number-one single in the U.S.A (including her work with the Supremes). Both songs spent six months on the chart, with "Endless Love" eclipsing the Everlys' hit by one week. It also became the most successful duet of the rock era, surpassing the Everly Brothers' 1957 hit " Wake Up Little Susie", which spent four weeks at number one. It also topped the Billboard R&B chart and the Adult Contemporary chart, and reached number 7 in the United Kingdom. While the film Endless Love was a modest box-office success, the song became the second biggest-selling single of the year (first was " Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes) in the United States and reached number one on the Hot 100, where it stayed for nine weeks from August 15 to October 10, 1981. (Jamie Bernstein, as the character Susan, sings the song during the course of the movie.) Produced by Richie and arranged by Gene Page, it was released as a single from the film's soundtrack in 1981. Ross and Richie recorded the song for Motown, and it was used as the theme for the Franco Zeffirelli's film adaptation of Scott Spencer's novel Endless Love. 6 Lionel Richie and Shania Twain version.5 Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey version.
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