Easy to Love (Leo Sayer song)

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"Easy to Love"
File:Easy to Love - Leo Sayer.jpg
Single by Leo Sayer
from the album Thunder in My Heart
B-side"Haunting Me"
ReleasedDecember 1977
Recorded1977
GenrePop, soft rock
Length3:44
LabelIsland
Songwriter(s)Leo Sayer, Albert Hammond
Producer(s)Richard Perry
Leo Sayer singles chronology
"Thunder in My Heart"
(1977) 		"Easy to Love"
(1977) 		"Raining in My Heart"
(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 the title track. "Easy to Love" reached number 36 in the United States and number 35 in Canada.[1][2] It did best in New Zealand, where it spent 10 weeks in the Top 40 and peaked at number 19.[3]

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".[4]

Personnel

Chart history

Chart (1977–78) Peak
position
Canada RPM Top Singles[2] 35
New Zealand (RIANZ)[3] 19
U.S. Pop Singles[1] 36

Cover versions

  • The song was re-recorded in Spanish by singer Lani Hall as "Es Fácil Amar," and appeared as the title track of her 1985 Latin Grammy Award-winning 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.[6]
  • 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.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1978-02-18. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Flavour of new zealand - search rianz". Flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved October 26, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Single Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. 12 November 1977. p. 24. Retrieved 25 November 2021 – via World Radio History.
  5. ↑ Thunder in My Heart (Album credits). Warner Bros. 1977.
  6. ↑ [1] [dead link‍]
  7. ↑ "Чаривни Гитары - Чаривни Гитары". Discogs.com. 1980. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
  8. ↑ "Чарівні Гітари - Вернись, Мими ('Easy to Love' Leo Sayer cover)". Retrieved 2023-09-28 – via YouTube.

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