Check out this amazing list below.įirst, a baker’s two-dozen of songs whose titles ended with everyone’s favorite four-letter word:
In fact, in researching his catalogue, I discovered that – with Luther – it was almost always about love…so much so that the first and/or last word was often just that: “love.”īeginning with “The Glow of Love” by Change – the group for which he provided lead vocals on two of their début album’s tracks – Luther likely had more songs than anyone else whose titles either began or ended with the word “love.”
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Yes, it goes without saying Luther knew a thing or two about how to sing a song with feeling, and singing about love likely came as naturally to him as walking or talking. Nothing this side of Whitney Houston’s redo of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” has even come close on the scale of reinvention to what Luther did to those and many other classics. What he did to the Carpenters’ “Superstar” or to Dionne Warwick’s “A House Is Not A Home” was downright unforgiving. He could reinvent the plainest of pop gems and turn them into his signature masterpieces, creating landscapes that were both structurally complex and chill-inducing as only his tenor/baritone vocal delivery could accomplish. He could turn simple love songs into sonic bouquets. Luther Vandross (1951-2005)Īs many of us already knew, few could sing about love the way Luther could. Yesterday, fans around the world commemorated what would have been Luther Vandross’ 70th birthday had the late soul icon lived.
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