Love Train

Album: Back Stabbers (1972)
Charted: 9 1
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

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  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1973 {April 14th} the O'Jays performed "Love Train" on the Saturday-afternoon nationally syndicated television program, 'Soul Train'...
    At the Time "Love Train" was at position #18 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, three weeks earlier it had peaked at #1 {for 1 week} and in spent fourteen weeks on the Top 100...
    And it also reached #1 on Billboard's Hot Soul Singles chart and #9 on the United Kingdom's Singles chart...
    Between 1965 and 2004 the Ohio soul group had fifty-eight records on the Hot Soul Singles chart, twenty-five made the Top 10 with ten reaching #1...
    They just missed having a total of thirteen #1s when three of their records peaked at #2, "Time To Get Down" {1973}, "Put Your Hands Together" {1973}, and "Don't Let Me Down" {1991}...
    Original member Bill Isles passed away last month on March 28th, 2019 at the age of 78...
    May he and Don Cornelius {1936 - 2012} R.I.P.
  • Bill from UsEven though this song was written in the first days of Disco it is a classic scene at the end of Witt Stillman's The Last Days Of Disco, where everyone goes through the 4th wall and starts dancing on the subway. Who can sit still for a song like this?
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