Vanessa Williams & Brian McKnight - "Love Is"

[Verisimilitude]

Shocked this doesn't have a thread. :o



From the Beverly Hills 90210 soundtrack, this peaked at #3 on the Hot 100 and #1 on both pop radio and AC. Urban radio shockingly paid it dust, only peaking at #55 on the Billboard R&B chart, proving that a song sometimes can be too vanilla, even with huge R&B stars behind it.

I love this song. Both this and Shanice's "Saving Forever For You" are gorgeous.

[johnnywest]

I like it. Not her best, but still good. I saw her do this in concert. Her piano player did the male vocals.

[HolidayGuy]

I think I have the cassingle somewhere. :)

[Deleted]

Not one of my favorites by either of them, but I like it. Pretty song.

[Libra]

Apr 2, 2015 21:03:50 GMT -5 Verisimilitude said:

From the Beverly Hills 90210 soundtrack, this peaked at #3 on the Hot 100 and #1 on both pop radio and AC. Urban radio shockingly paid it dust, only peaking at #55 on the Billboard R&B chart, proving that a song sometimes can be too vanilla, even with huge R&B stars behind it.

Looks like "Saving Forever For You" wasn't exactly huge there either (that hit #20).

It's also worth noting that this was also the #1 AC song for all of 1993 - making Vanessa one of a select few (if not the only?) to turn that trick twice in a row, as "Save the Best For Last" did that the year prior. (Interesting that those have also been her only two AC chart-toppers...)

I actually never heard this until first hearing AT40's Top 100 of 1993 a couple years back. I absolutely love "Save the Best For Last", but if you were to ask me which I like more - that song or this one...it's essentially a tie. I can't choose between the two.

[disman00911]

This song was overplayed to death on the AC stations (such as Lite FM 93.9) and on Rhythmic Top 40 B96 when I was younger.  I don't hate it nowadays but there are other songs from both Vanessa and Brian that I prefer over this one.