Candi Staton - "Young Hearts Run Free"

[Nick]

Disco jam!


www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0pRFWLBnEQ

[mst3k]

Good song, although I wish they didn't feel the need to sing it every season on AI.

Josh/orangeclouds/mariahjanet hated this song, as I recall.

[SPaCeMaN SPiFF]

mst3k1 said:

I wish they didn't feel the need to sing it every season on AI.

AMEN!... i always found that odd. maybe the producers like it or something.

i kinda prefer the kym m. version in the romeo+juliet soundtrack tho.

[A Thug Named Slickback]

I never really saw what was so special about this song. But my mother loves it and, so, I heard it a lot while I was growing up.

#2 UK
#20 US Hot 100
#1(1 week) US R&B

[620 Soul Train]

I heard this just recently on Chrome (channel 83) on XM radio about a couple weeks ago. Otherwise I do not really remember the song.

[JOJO SIWA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME]

I really liked this song. It's kinda cute. I originally discovered this through Kym Mazelle's remake from the Romeo & Juliet soundtrack. I think Kym did a pretty good job.

Gloria Estefan did a remake of this song last year for the Desperate Housewives soundtrack.

[billcs]

I have the original 45. It's a great song with a terrific vocal.

[..Varun..]

Oh i LOVE this song, and i always did. I remember they used the original in the ryan phillipe movie 54...i started loving it even more after that. Obviously the song got more publicity thru romeo and juliet, i cant say how big it was when it first came out cuz i probably wasnt born then.

[strong4PMB!]

jam!

[horchata]

One of my favorite disco songs ever, I honestly love everything about it.

[areyoureadytojump]

Went to #20 on the Hot 100 in August 1976.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Hearts_Run_Free

"Young Hearts Run Free" is a disco song by American soul singer Candi Staton. Released in 1976 from the album of the same title, it spent a week at number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart. It also peaked at number twenty on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[1]

Along with the tracks "Run to Me" and "Destiny", "Young Hearts Run Free" went to number eight on the dance/disco charts.[2]

"Young Hearts Run Free" was one of only two songs by Staton to reach the top 10 on the UK Singles Chart, it peaked at number two behind The Real Thing's "You to Me Are Everything".[3]

[Soulsista]

I love this.

[areyoureadytojump]

Adele singing Young Hearts

http://instagram.com/p/B8qsYn4InRH

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Ohhh...I remember this song!!!! Love it! Haven't heard this in AGES!!!

[Private Dancer]

I wore this song out. A classic! Love this!

[jdanton2]

Feb 18, 2020 18:16:14 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

Adele singing Young Hearts

http://instagr.am/p/B8qsYn4InRH

Adele should record a disco album.

[disman00911]

Good song though my favorite from her is her 1986 house track "You Got the Love".

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

#424 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs

You Know What It Is: A classic country ballad in a disco leisure suit, as Candi Staton extols the virtues of romantic independence over a soul-stirring horn groove, while simultaneously lamenting that she didn’t practice what she’s preaching in her own relationship.

Come Together: The song‘s genesis came from writer/producer David Crawford grilling Staton about her romantic life and finding her to be in a “very abusive relationship,” leading him to promise her a song “that’s gonna last forever.”

Hollywood Nights: With all things disco receiving new life in the mid-’90s, house diva Kym Mazelle covered “Young Hearts” for the soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet — lip synced in the film by Harold Perrineau’s Mercutio in costume-party drag.