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| Single by Minnie Riperton | ||||||||||||||||
| from the album Perfect Angel | ||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "The Edge Of A Dream" | |||||||||||||||
| Released | January 13, 1975 | |||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1974 | |||||||||||||||
| Genre | Soul | |||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:21 (single version) | |||||||||||||||
| Label | Epic 32561 |
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| Writer(s) | Minnie Riperton Richard Rudolph |
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| Producer | Stevie Wonder | |||||||||||||||
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"Lovin' You" is a 1975 hit single by Minnie Riperton. The song became the 400th No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 on April 5, 1975[citation needed]. Additionally, the song reached No. 2 in the UK, and No. 3 on the R&B charts in the US. The song is especially noteworthy due to the unusually high pitches that Riperton reaches during the song. It is also noteworthy for the sound of the chirping songbirds that are heard throughout the song, which Riperton phonates by use of the whistle register.
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Setting [edit]
It was the fourth single from the album Perfect Angel (1974). The song is notable for Riperton's use of the whistle register.
"Lovin' You" was among the first several songs to top the U.S. pop chart without the help of a percussion instrument. Prior examples of percussion-less Number Ones were Jim Croce – "Time in a Bottle" (1973), The Beatles – "Yesterday" (1965), and on the UK Singles Chart, The Beatles – "Eleanor Rigby" (1966).
According to the liner notes from Riperton's compilation CD Petals, the melody for "Lovin' You" was created as a distraction for her daughter (Maya Rudolph) when she was a baby so that Minnie and her husband Richard could hang out. Maya was in the studio with her mother on the day the song was recorded and Riperton can be heard singing her daughter's name at the end of the song, but only in the unedited or album version of the song. The song fades out early in the single edit, because the disc jockeys felt that the repeated "MAYA" was being overdone and too misunderstood, thinking that it was a "Mayan Chant".
Charts [edit]
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| Chart (1975) | Peak Position |
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| US Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| US Billboard Hot Soul Singles | 3 |
| UK Singles Chart | 2 |
| Preceded by "Lady Marmalade" by Labelle |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single April 5, 1975 |
Succeeded by "Philadelphia Freedom" by Elton John |
Shanice version [edit]
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| from the album Inner Child | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | August 11, 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Format | CD single, Cassette single | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | R&B | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:57 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Motown 2175 |
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| Producer | Narada Michael Walden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shanice's cover of the song was released in the summer of 1992 months after the success of her hit single "I Love Your Smile." It only achieved minor success on the R&B chart peaking at No. 59, and also peaked at No. 54 on the UK charts. The music video for the song is set on a beach. In 2005, she re-recorded the song again for her 2006 album Every Woman Dreams.
Track listing [edit]
- Single Version
- I Love Your Smile (Driza Bone Single Remix)
- I Love Your Smile (Driza Bone Club Remix)
- Instrumental
Charts [edit]
| Chart (1992) | Peak Position |
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| US Billboard Hot R&B Singles | 59 |
| UK Singles Chart | 54 |
Personnel [edit]
- Drums and programming by Narada Michael Walden
- Keyboards and programming by Louis Biancaniello
- Produced by Stevie Wonder under the pseudonym "El Toro Negro" ("the Black Bull").
Other cover versions [edit]
- Leona Lewis also recorded a version with producer Marley J Wills, at the age of 15.
- Jack Vidgen did a cover of "Lovin' you" in 2011, for his debut album "Yes I Am".
- Reggae and Ska pioneer Alton Ellis covered the song for his LP Mr Ska Bean'a.
- Reggae singer, Janet Kay also covered the song.
- In 1980 Polish singer Ewa Kuklińska released a cover version with Polish lyrics entitled "Wino z win (Wine from our faults)" which became a notable hit for her.
- In 1998 a trance and 5 others dance versions were released by UBM with the Brazilian singer Andrea Rincon.
- A live cover of "Lovin' You" was included in Japanese female singer Misia's second album Love Is the Message.
- Ken Hirai also covered this song on his Ken's Bar album.
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk recorded a Jazz-Version on the album "The Return Of The 5000 Lb. Man"!
- Ella Henderson performed the song during the second week of live shows in the 2012 series of The X Factor.
The song has also appeared in several movies and TV-shows, such as The Game, South Park, Will & Grace, Disturbia, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), Puberty Blues, The Simpsons, Everybody Loves Raymond, Generation Kill, American Idol, Monkeybone, The Nutty Professor (performed by Eddie Murphy while trying to show off to an offensive comic played by Dave Chappelle), Vegas Vacation (Wayne Newton covers the song during a Wayne Newton show at the MGM Grand) and Megamind, as well as a commercial for Visa featuring the Pittsburgh Steelers, where the song is supposed to be Who Let the Dogs Out? by the Baha Men. Singer Chante Moore performs the song during William's and Yvonne's ill-fated wedding on an episode of Girlfriends.
The song is also used in a sketch featuring a man spanking a woman with a spacehopper, in the Chris Morris comedy show Blue Jam. On an episode of The Steve Harvey Show, Romeo's father serenades his mother with his version of "Lovin' You" to woo her back (she had left him and moved in with Romeo and Steve). Additionally, it was used in a Burger King commercial promoting Cini-Minis. The song was also sampled heavily by Dubstep artist Coki in a track entitled "Ruff Lovin'". This song is also featured on Justin Lo's debut Cantonese album Justin in 2005. In 2007 the Japanese rock band Electric Eel Shock covered the song on their album Transworld Ultra Rock. This song was also sung by Jane Zhang during her participation in Super Girls. It was also used in the movie Megamind, "Seven Pounds" and "Disturbia (film)".
The Orb's single "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld", also known as "Loving You", was based around a sample of the Riperton original.
A fast eurodance remix, titled "Complete Loving", was recorded by the DJ group Sound Assassins for the 1999 Dancemania compilation Speed 2. Jazz saxophonists Roland Kirk and Lou Donaldson also covered the song. Dianne Reeves covered the song in her album "When you know" (2008).
Che'Nelle had a cover version on her 2011 album Luv_Songs.
Samplings [edit]
- Mariah Carey arranged the introduction of the song for her 2001 song "Never Too Far".
- Shifty Shellshock used long excerpts from the song for sampling in his track "Ez Cuz You're Beautiful" from his 2004 solo album Happy Love Sick.
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