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"Love's Theme" is an instrumental piece written by Barry White in around 1965,^{[citation needed]} and recorded and released as a single by White's The Love Unlimited Orchestra in 1973. It is one of the few instrumental and purely orchestral singles to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States, which it did in early 1974.[2] Billboard ranked it as the No. 3 song for 1974.[3] The piece was included on two albums: 1973's Under the Influence of... Love Unlimited (by the vocal group Love Unlimited) and 1974's Rhapsody in White by the Love Unlimited Orchestra.

"Love's Theme"
Side A of the US single
Single by The Love Unlimited Orchestra
from the album Under the Influence of... Love Unlimited and Rhapsody in White
B-side	"Sweet Moments"
Released	November 1973
Recorded	1973
Genre	Philly soul proto-disco[1]
Length	(Single) 3:30 (Album) 4:08
Label	20th Century/Pye International
Songwriter(s)	Barry White
Producer(s)	Barry White
The Love Unlimited Orchestra singles chronology
"Love's Theme" (1973) "Rhapsody in White" (1974)
Music video
Love Unlimited Orchestra – Love's Theme (live at TopPop) on YouTube

The recording, with a large string orchestra, wah-wah guitar, and big rhythm, is considered to be an influence on the disco sound, which would explode in popularity the following year. The song was also popular on the Adult Contemporary chart in the United States, where it spent two weeks at No. 1. It also was a No. 1 on Cash Box. In Canada, the single saw similar success, reaching No. 1 on the RPM 100 National Singles Chart on March 2, 1974.[4]

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Cover versions & samples

• In addition, "Love's Theme" was also recorded in a vocal version by Love Unlimited (on their 1974 album In Heat).
• Andy Williams released a vocal version in May 1974 that reached No. 16 on the adult contemporary chart in the United States.[22]
• Enoch Light recorded an electro-disco instrumental version on his 1977 album, Disco Disque. The song is also part of
• Meco's instrumental medley "Hooked On Instrumentals Part I" (from the 1985 album Hooked On Instrumentals).
• In May 1993, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark released the single "Dream of Me (Based on Love's Theme)" (from their album Liberator, released the same year) which used a sample of this Barry White composition. This single reached No. 24 on the UK Singles Chart, and Barry White was given a writing credit.

Popular culture

• It was also used by ABC Sports for many years as the opening theme music for its golf coverage.
• New York television station WPIX used it as the closing music for its then-Action News franchise during the mid-1970s.[23][24]
• The Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways used the music for their TV advertisements.
• It was also featured briefly in Mean Girls, Despicable Me 2, El Cantante, Goodbye Bruce Lee: His Last Game of Death and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.^{[citation needed]}
• Seven Network's music video show Sounds Unlimited used the song as its opening and closing theme.^{[citation needed]}
• It was also used as the opening theme for the Brazilian telenovela Celebridade and is the opening and closing theme of Italian reality program C'è posta per te.

See also

• List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1974 (U.S.)
• List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1974 (U.S.)
• List of RPM number-one singles of 1974 (Canada)

References

External links

• Rhapsody in White at AllMusic
• Under the Influence of Love Unlimited at AllMusic
• "Love's Theme" at Discogs (list of releases)
• "Love Theme" conducted by Ray Conniff on YouTube
• "Love Theme" conducted by Gerhard Narholz (as Norman Candler) on YouTube

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«Love's Theme» es una pieza instrumental grabada por la orquesta de Barry White, The Love Unlimited Orchestra a mediados de 1973 y lanzada en febrero de 1974 como la cara A de un sencillo. El tema es uno de los pocos singles puramente orquestales en llegar al número 1 de las listas Hot 100 de los Estados Unidos, lo cual ocurrió en los primeros días de febrero de 1974. Billboard la calificó como la tercera canción de 1974. La pieza fue incluida en dos álbumes: "Under the Influence of... Love Unlimited" (del grupo vocal femenino Love Unlimited) en 1973 y en "Rhapsody in White" (de Love Unlimited Orchestra) en 1974.

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