Look What Love Has Done

"Look What Love Has Done"
Single by Patty Smyth
ReleasedNovember 1994
Length4:05 (single version)
LabelMCA
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)James Newton Howard
Patty Smyth singles chronology
"Shine"
(1993) 		"Look What Love Has Done"
(1994) 		"Broken"
(2015)

"Look What Love Has Done" is a song by American singer Patty Smyth, released in November 1994 as the theme song to the American comedy film Junior. It was written by Carole Bayer Sager, James Ingram, James Newton Howard and Smyth, and was produced by Howard.

The song was nominated for Academy and Golden Globe Awards. It also achieved chart success in the US and Canada, reaching number 6 on the US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 and number 21 on the RPM Top 100 Singles charts.

Critical reception

Upon its release as a single, Larry Flick of Billboard praised "Look What Love Has Done" as a "sweet pop ballad" that "shift[s] from a stock piano-vocal opening to a softly percussive, rocking groove". He noted Smyth "brings a worldly, empathetic quality to a lyric that might sound schmaltzy in lesser hands" and believed the single "maintains a youthful top 40 tone while keeping options for AC play wide open".[1] Pan-European magazine Music & Media commented, "Look what a medical experimente can do, would be a better title. The theme song to Junior is just a normal film ballad (but not as kitschy)."[2]

Awards

The song was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song at the 52nd Golden Globe Awards in January 1995 and for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 67th Academy Awards in March 1995.[3][4]

Track listing

Cassette and CD single (US)[5][6]

  1. "Look What Love Has Done" (single version) – 4:05
  2. "Look What Love Has Done" (instrumental) – 4:28

CD single (Germany)[7]

  1. "Look What Love Has Done" (single version) – 4:05
  2. "Look What Love Has Done" (instrumental) – 4:28
  3. "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" – 4:27

Personnel

Production

Charts

Chart (1995) Peak
position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[8] 21
Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)[9] 10
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)[10] 6
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[11] 23

References

  1. ^ Flick, Larry (November 26, 1994). "Single Reviews". Billboard. Vol. 106, no. 48. Billboard Publications, Inc. p. 101. ISSN 0006-2510.
  2. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music & Media. Vol. 11, no. 6. February 11, 1995. p. 10. OCLC 29800226.
  3. ^ "Film, TV Nominees for the Golden Globes". Los Angeles Times. December 23, 1994. Retrieved October 10, 2024.
  4. ^ "The 67th Academy Awards – 1995". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 5 October 2014. Retrieved October 10, 2024.
  5. ^ Look What Love Has Done (US cassette single sleeve). Patty Smyth. MCA Records. 1994. MCACS-54971.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  6. ^ Look What Love Has Done (US CD single liner notes). Patty Smyth. MCA Records. 1994. MCADS-54971.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  7. ^ Look What Love Has Done (German CD single liner notes). Patty Smyth. MCA Records. 1994. MCD 32500.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  8. ^ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 8015." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved October 10, 2024.
  9. ^ "Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Issue 9101." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved October 10, 2024.
  10. ^ "Patty Smyth Chart History (Bubbling Under Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved October 10, 2024.
  11. ^ "Patty Smyth Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved October 10, 2024.