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"Young Hearts Run Free" is a disco song written by David Crawford and originally recorded by American soul singer Candi Staton in 1976. Rolling Stone ranked Staton's "Young Hearts Run Free" number 150 in their list of "200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time" in 2022, [ 1 ] while Billboard ranked it among the "500 Best Pop Songs of All Time" in 2023.
In 1976, Staton began collaborating with producer David Crawford on disco songs such as "Young Hearts Run Free", which reached No. 1 on the US R&B charts, No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart and went Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 [10] during the summer of 1976.
"Young Hearts Run Free" (Remix) — — — 47 "You Got the Love" — 88 — 95 1991 "You Got the Love" The Source feat. Candi Staton (reissue) — — — 4
"Young Hearts Run Free" Candi Staton: 91 "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" Neil Sedaka: 92 "Money Honey" Bay City Rollers: 93 "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" Parliament: 94 "Junk Food Junkie" Larry Groce: 95 "Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again" Barry Manilow: 96 "Rock and Roll All Nite (Live)" Kiss: 97 "Disco Duck" Rick Dees & His Cast ...
The phrase "young Turks" is not heard in the song, the chorus instead centring on the phrase "young hearts, be free, tonight", leading to the song frequently being known as "Young Hearts" or "Young Hearts Be Free". The music for the song was composed by Carmine Appice, Duane Hitchings, and Kevin Savigar, with lyrics written by Stewart. [8]
Two years later, in 1996, Mazelle released a cover version of the song "Young Hearts Run Free", which appeared in the 1996 Baz Luhrmann film William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and also appeared on the director's remix album Something for Everybody. [13] The soundtrack went triple platinum in the United States of America. [14]
One of her recent successful hit singles is, "Never Gonna Lose" released on ZYX Records in Germany on December 27, 2005, and her song "Young Hearts Run Free" was released on Blanco y Negro Music in Spain on September 9, 2009. [5]
On June 28, Ralph released a cover of Candi Staton's song "Young Hearts Run Free" as a promotional single. [14] The singer has revealed she's been working on a full-length album, which she expects to be "bigger, better and more interesting, more surprising". [2]