Love Sensation

"Love Sensation"
Single by Loleatta Holloway
from the album Love Sensation
Released	1980
Format	7", 12"
Recorded	1980
Genre	R&B, disco
Length	3:44 (7"); 6:34 (12")
Label	Gold Mind Records
Writer(s)	Dan Hartman
Producer	Dan Hartman

"Love Sensation" is the title of a 1980 song performed by American R&B singer Loleatta Holloway, taken from her album of the same name. The song was produced and written by Dan Hartman, arranged by Norman Harris, and mixed by Tom Moulton. It was a hit on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart, where the song spent a week at #1 in September 1980.

Frequently sampled

Parts of the song have been sampled and re-used in songs such as:

• "I Wanna Have Some Fun" by Samantha Fox
• "Ride on Time" (Holloway's vocal as well as the Salsoul Orchestra's instrumental portions) by Black Box
• "I Don't Know Anybody Else by Black Box/Martha Wash.
• "Grand Piano" by Mixmaster
• "Good Vibrations" by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
• "We All Feel Better in the Dark" by the Pet Shop Boys
• "Move" by Moby
• "Take Me Away" by Cappella
• "Take Me Away" by 2 in a Room (using the same sample as Cappella)
• "(You Got Me) Burnin' Up" with Cevin Fisher
• "Take Me Away" by Chase & Status
• "Blind Faith" by Chase & Status
• "Love Sensation" by Kurd Maverick

Remixes

• "Love Sensation (Freemasons Remix)" by Freemasons
• "Love Sensation 2006" by Eddie Thoneick & Kurd Maverick (UK: #37)
• "Love Sensation 2008 (Ride on Time)" by ON-X
• "Love Sensation 2010" by Alexander Cruz"

See also

• List of number-one dance hits (United States)

External links

• "Love Sensation" single release at Discogs

Preceded by "Upside Down" / "I'm Coming Out" by Diana Ross

U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one single September 20, 1980

Succeeded by "Can't Fake the Feeling" by Geraldine Hunt