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Flying High (Lionel Richie, Thomas McClary) from the album Natural High – 3:55; Only You (Milan Williams) from the album Commodores 13 1983 – 4:29; Animal Instinct (Martin Page) from the album Nightshift – 4:06; Just To Be Close To You (Lionel Richie) from the album Hot on the Tracks 1976 – 3:23
Lionel Richie: Lionel Richie; Diane Warren; Time: 1998 "I'll Be There" Kenny Loggins: ... "Only You" Chicago: James Pankow; Chicago 17: 1984 "Please Hold On" Chicago ...
Furthermore, they have gone beyond the simplistic boy -loves -girl and dance -dance -dance lyrics that are the formula staples of contemporary soul music. The album offers plenty of the kind of soul funk we have come to expect of the Commodores, performed with stunning precision, but there are also some interesting variations."
Written by Lionel Richie, the song was released as a single in 1981, being his last hit with the Commodores before going solo. Similarities of the song's opening bars can be heard in Richie's 1981 duet "Endless Love" with Diana Ross. Record World praised "the combination of delicate piano melodies and Lionel Richie Jr.'s emotional lead vocal." [1]
Richie was born on June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, Alabama, the son of Lionel Brockman Richie (1915–1990), [11] a U.S. Army systems analyst, and Alberta R. Foster (1917–2001), [12] a teacher and school principal. His grandmother Adelaide Mary Brown was a pianist who played classical music.
Lionel Richie is the debut solo studio album by American singer Lionel Richie, released on October 6, 1982, on Motown Records.Originally intended as a side project at the suggestion of Motown, it was recorded and released while Richie was still a member of the Commodores; he left the group shortly after the album's release.
"Still" is a 1979 song by the soul music group the Commodores. It was released as a single on Motown Records with "Such a Woman" as the B-side. The song appears on their 1979 hit album Midnight Magic. [2]
Written by Commodores lead singer Lionel Richie, the song is a slow ballad expressing a man's relief as a relationship ends. Rather than being depressed about the break-up, he states that he is instead "easy like Sunday morning"—something that Richie described as evocative of "small Southern towns that die at 11:30pm" on a Saturday night, such as his hometown Tuskegee, Alabama. [6]