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{{Infobox song
| name       = Easy to Love
| cover      = Easy_to_Love_-_Leo_Sayer.jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Leo Sayer]]
| album      = [[Thunder in My Heart]]
| B-side     = Haunting Me
| released   = December 1977
| recorded   = 1977
| studio     =
| genre      = Pop, soft rock
| length     = 3:44
| label      = [[Warner Bros. Records|Island]]
| writer     = Leo Sayer, [[Albert Hammond]]
| producer   = [[Richard Perry]]
| prev_title = [[Thunder in My Heart (song)|Thunder in My Heart]]
| prev_year  = 1977
| next_title = [[Raining in My Heart]]
| next_year  = 1978
}}
"'''Easy to Love'''" is a [[song]] recorded by [[Leo Sayer]] for the [[album]] ''[[Thunder in My Heart]]'', and originally released as a single in 1977. It was co-written by Sayer with [[Albert Hammond]].  It was the second single from the LP, the follow-up to [[Thunder in My Heart (song)|the title track]].
"Easy to Love" reached number 36 in the United States and number 35 in Canada.<ref name="ReferenceA">''Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990'' - {{ISBN|0-89820-089-X}}</ref><ref name="govofcanada">{{cite web|url= https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.5533a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.5533a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.5533a|title=Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada |website=Collectionscanada.gc.ca |date=1978-02-18 |access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref>  It did best in New Zealand, where it spent 10 weeks in the Top 40 and peaked at number 19.<ref name="Flavour of New Zealand, 21 May 1978">{{Cite web|url=http://www.flavourofnz.co.nz/index.php?qpageID=search+rianz&qartistid=895#n_view_location|title=Flavour of new zealand - search rianz|website=Flavourofnz.co.nz|access-date=October 26, 2024}}</ref>
==Reception==
''[[Cash Box magazine]]'' said "The second single from the ''Thunder in My Heart'' LP has a strong R&B/disco flavour to it and features the Sayer falsetto that has been so popular on his last two or three hits".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1977/CB-1977-11-12.pdf|title=Single Reviews |magazine=[[Cash Box magazine|Cash Box]]|via=World Radio History|page=24|date=12 November 1977|access-date=25 November 2021}}</ref>
==Personnel==
*Leo Sayer – vocals
*[[Jeff Porcaro]] – drums<ref>{{cite AV media |type=Album credits |title=Thunder in My Heart |publisher=Warner Bros |date=1977}}</ref>
*[[Ben Adkins]] – bass
*[[Lee Ritenour]] – guitars
*[[Ray Parker Jr.|Ray Parker]] – guitars
*[[Michael Omartian]] – piano
*[[Bobbye Hall]] – percussion
*[[David Paich]] – string section arranger and conductor
==Chart history==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Chart (1977–78)
!Peak<br />position
|-
|Canada ''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'' Top Singles<ref name="govofcanada" />
|align="center"|35
|-
|New Zealand ([[RIANZ]])<ref name="Flavour of New Zealand, 21 May 1978"/>
| style="text-align:center;"|19
|-
|U.S. [[Billboard Hot 100|Pop Singles]]<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
|align="center"|36
|-
|}
==Cover versions==
*The song was re-recorded in [[Spanish language|Spanish]] by singer [[Lani Hall]] as "Es Fácil Amar," and appeared as the title track of her 1985 Latin [[Grammy Award]]-winning [[Es Fácil Amar|album of the same name]], produced by Hammond.
*A French language version recorded in 1978 by [[Georges Thurston]] would later gain success in the early 1990s when 800,000 copies were sold in Europe.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20020718184838/http://www.qim.com/artistes/biographie.asp?artistid=504] </ref>
*Dutch musician Peter Hollestelle wrote new words to the composition of the song, and his band "Cashmere" had a Dutch Top Ten hit single in 1979 with its resulting song, "Love's What I Want".
*An untranslated (English) version was recorded by Ukrainian vocal-instrumental group "Чарівні Гітари" ("Magic Guitars") and released in 1980.<ref>{{Cite web|website=Discogs.com|title=Чаривни Гитары - Чаривни Гитары |date=1980 |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/20815357-%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B8-%D0%93%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B-%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B8-%D0%93%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B |access-date=2023-09-28 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|via=[[YouTube]] |title=Чарівні Гітари - Вернись, Мими ('Easy to Love' Leo Sayer cover) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3Nt0UzYE4E |access-date=2023-09-28 |language=en}}</ref>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
* {{YouTube|L6pBlrVeY6Q|Leo Sayer - Easy to Love}}
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[[Category:Leo Sayer songs]]
[[Category:1977 songs]]
[[Category:1977 singles]]
[[Category:Warner Records singles]]
[[Category:Songs written by Albert Hammond]]
[[Category:Songs written by Leo Sayer]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Richard Perry]]
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