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"Sail On" is a Commodores song written by Lionel Richie from their 1979 album Midnight Magic. Released as the first of three singles from the album, it was produced by both Commodores and James Anthony Carmichael. The song reached the top ten on both the US and UK music charts that same year.
Commodores, often billed as The Commodores, is an American funk and soul group. The group's most successful period was in the late 1970s and early 1980s when Lionel Richie was the co-lead singer. The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University ) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972 ...
Sail On (Imperials album) or the title song, 1977; Sail On (Muddy Waters album), 1969; originally The Best of Muddy Waters, 1958; Sail On: The 30th Anniversary Collection, a 2004 album by Kansas; Sail On, a 1996 album by Dick Gaughan "Sail On" (song), a 1979 song by the Commodores "Sail On", a song by Masterplan from their self-titled album, 2003
"Three Times a Lady" (The Commodores) "Don't Wanna Lose You" "Hello" "Sail On" (The Commodores) "Easy" (The Commodores) "Say You, Say Me" "Do It to Me" "Penny Lover" "Truly" "Still" (The Commodores) "Love Will Conquer All" "Sweet Love" (The Commodores) "Ballerina Girl" "Still in Love" "Oh No" (The Commodores) "Just to Be Close to You" (The ...
Midnight Magic is the seventh studio album by the musical group the Commodores, released in 1979. [3] The album was certified Gold in the UK by the BPI . [ 4 ] Midnight Magic was Grammy nominated in the category of Best R&B Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus .
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]
"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] This was their last No. 1 hit in the United States.
Resuming where he left off with D-flat major tunes "Sail On" and particularly "Still" when he was lead for the Commodores, Richie wrote the song and co-produced it with James Anthony Carmichael. Released as the first single from his self-titled debut album in 1982, "Truly" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on 9 October 1982 and climbed to No. 1 ...