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| Album = [[Can't Slow Down (Lionel Richie album)|Can't Slow Down]]
| Album = [[Can't Slow Down (Lionel Richie album)|Can't Slow Down]]
| B-side = "Tell Me"
| B-side = "Tell Me"
| Released = September 30. 1984
| Released = September 30. 1985
| Format = 7" (45 rpm)
| Format = 7" (45 rpm)
| Recorded = 1983
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| Last single = "[[Stuck on You (Lionel Richie song)|Stuck on You]]"<br>(1984)
| Last single = "[[Stuck on You (Lionel Richie song)|Stuck on You]]"<br>(1984)
| This single = "'''Penny Lover'''"<br>(1984)
| This single = "'''Penny Lover'''"<br>(1985)
| Next single = "[[Say You, Say Me]]"<br>(1985)
| Next single = "[[Say You, Say Me]]"<br>(1986)
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Revision as of 11:13, 3 February 2016

"Penny Lover"
Song
B-side"Tell Me"

"Penny Lover" is the title of the fifth and final single released from Lionel Richie's multi-platinum and Grammy Award-winning 1983 album, Can't Slow Down. The song was written by Richie and his then-wife, Brenda Harvey Richie.

As with all the other singles taken from Can't Slow Down ("All Night Long (All Night)", "Running with the Night", "Hello" and "Stuck on You"), "Penny Lover" was a top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, spending two weeks at #8 in December 1984.[1] The song reached an identical #8 peak position on the Billboard R&B chart, while on the Billboard adult contemporary chart, the song logged four weeks at #1.[2] On the UK Singles Chart, the song reached #18.[3]

In a song review printed in Billboard by an anonymous writer in 1984, "Penny Lover" was described as "another of his unfailingly effective universal-appeal ballads."[2]

Music video

The music video was directed by Bob Giraldi, who had also directed "Running with the Night" and "Hello".

See also

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 529.
  2. ^ a b Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications), page 288.
  3. ^ UK Singles Chart info from chartstats.com Retrieved 24 March 2009.