Love Overboard

"Love Overboard"
Single by Gladys Knight & the Pips
from the album All Our Love
Released	1987
Format	7" single 12" single CD single promo single
Recorded	1987
Genre	R&B, dance-pop, soul
Length	5:26
Label	MCA
Writer(s)	Reginald Calloway
Producer(s)	Reggie Calloway & Vincent Calloway for Calloco, Inc.

"Love Overboard" is a Grammy Award-winning 1987 single by Gladys Knight and the Pips. The single was significant because it was the first Top 40 hit for the group in over a decade, and their final Pop Top 40 release as well.

"Love Overboard" was the group's last of ten #1 hits on the Hot Black Singles chart. It crossed over to #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart as well.^[1] The single was also successful on the dance charts, peaking at number four.^[2] It also peaked at #59 on the Canada RPM Top 100 Singles chart.

Popular Culture

Knight performs the song in a dream sequence on an episode of A Different World, with Whitley and Jaleesa singing background for her (instead of the Pips).

References

↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 331.
↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 147.

Preceded by "The Way You Make Me Feel" by Michael Jackson	Billboard Hot Black Singles number-one single January 23, 1988	Succeeded by "I Want Her" by Keith Sweat

Gladys Knight & the Pips

Gladys Knight Merald "Bubba" Knight William Guest Edward Patten Brenda Knight Eleanor Guest Langston George Chris Morante

Studio albums	Everybody Needs Love Neither One of Us Imagination I Feel a Song 2nd Anniversary The One and Only

Soundtrack albums	Claudine

Compilation albums	The Ultimate Collection

Singles	"Every Beat of My Heart" "Giving Up" "Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me" "Everybody Needs Love" "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" "The End of Our Road" "It Should Have Been Me" "I Wish It Would Rain" "The Nitty Gritty" "If I Were Your Woman" "Help Me Make It Through the Night" "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)" "The Look of Love" "Midnight Train to Georgia" "I've Got to Use My Imagination" "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" "I Feel a Song (In My Heart)" "The Way We Were/Try to Remember" "Save the Overtime (For Me)" "Hero" "Love Overboard" "Baby, Don't Change Your Mind"

Related topics	Discography Aaliyah Barry Hankerson

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