Love Is the Message (MFSB song)

"Love Is the Message"
Single by MFSB featuring The Three Degrees
from the album Love is the Message
B-side"My One and Only Love"
ReleasedJune 7, 1974
Recorded1974
GenreDisco[1]
Length6:37 (album cut)
2:39 (single version)
11:30 (12" version)
LabelPhiladelphia International Records
Songwriter(s)Gamble and Huff
Producer(s)Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff
MFSB featuring The Three Degrees singles chronology
"TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)"
(1974) 		"Love Is the Message"
(1974) 		"Sexy"
(1975)

"Love Is the Message" is a 1974 song by MFSB featuring vocals by The Three Degrees, written by Gamble and Huff and the follow-up to their #1 hit TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia). It reached #85 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Weekly charts

Chart (1973–74) Peak
position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[2] 37
US Billboard Hot 100[3] 85
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[4] 42

References

  1. ^ Echols, Alice (March 29, 2010). "I Hear a Symphony: Black Masculinity and the Disco Turn". Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-393-06675-3.
  2. ^ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 5024a." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
  3. ^ "MFSB Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  4. ^ "MFSB Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard.


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