Through the overdue Nineteen Seventies, Natalie Cole was once neatly and really extra than simply, within the public eye, the daughter of Nat King Cole. The Los Angeles chanteuse with the well-known father had already launched 4 solo studio albums within the wake of her debut crossover break unmarried “This Will Be,” and they all went both gold or platinum in the United States, in addition to construction her world target audience.
The fourth, Grateful, gave the impression in November 1977 and in an instant introduced up her subsequent R&B chart access, the graceful and sultry ballad “Our Love.” It was once written by way of Cole’s common crew of Chuck Jackson and Marvin Yancy, each former contributors of the R&B staff the Independents (this Chuck Jackson to not be at a loss for words with the longtime solo soul celebrity of the similar title).
The Grateful album confirmed Cole herself rising ever more potent as a composer in her personal proper, with two solo credit and one co-write; certainly one in every of her songs, “Annie Mae,” can be a next unmarried from the LP and, even though it didn’t go to the pop marketplace, it gave her an 8th consecutive Best 10 R&B hit later in 1978.
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For now, even though, “Our Love” was once to develop into any other giant unmarried for Cole in each markets. It entered Billboard’s soul listings on November 19, 1977 after which hit the pop marketplace with a Sizzling 100 debut on January 14, 1978. That week, it climbed 5-2 at the R&B aspect, the place per week later it took over from Con Funk Shun’s “Ffun” to develop into her 5th soul No.1 out of 7 singles.
“Our Love” went on to achieve a extremely decent No.10 on the United States pop chart for 2 weeks in April, in which time it was once her 2d gold unmarried. The primary, “I’ve Were given Love On My Thoughts,” from Natalie’s 3rd album Unpredictable, was once any other Jackson/Yancy composition. There was once not anything unpredictable about it: Cole was once onto a successful components.
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