Diana Ross … Love Hangover

Brings back great memories. Worked at End-Up and I-Beam on Haight in San Francisco. Always cleared the clubs to the dance floor. What a time to be alive.

I always hated how first the song is slow, then it becomes fast.

I never saw the appeal of this track. It's not even a real song. Awful, just awful. Especially coming right after her number one hit "Mahogany", which was beautiful.

R3 Glad I’m not alone.

I love watching Diana control the crowd with this song on The Midnight Special.

She was so trendy when someone wrote her a song and explained it and arranged it and recorded it and set-dressed her and prepped her and rehearsed her and told her where to stand!

A true trendsetter.

Always doing what the Berry of the moment told her to do.

Closed many a night on the dance floor with “Love Hangover”.

(The extended version, of course)

A bit of a bummer isn’t it, so low in energy and that’s so unlike the usual perky Miss Ross

I love this song. A bit of a departure to her with the unusual structure and Ross improvising throughout the song (even mimicking Billie Holiday at one point).

Personally, I love how the song starts off slow and then kicks up the tempo.

Eric Kupper tried his best here, but still…

Da bass line in dat song so funky you make a FACE!

That song really brings me back to humid summer nights in Clark,NJ at my grandparents house. It was a 25 minute drive from where we lived and my mother would have WNBC on and this was in constant rotation. I loved my grandma so much I swear I may have well been literally going to visit heaven.

Simpler, sweeter, more beautiful times.

Yes, Diana had several hits at a single artist (Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Touch Me in the Morning). But this was her first true mega-hit as a solo artist. It took her six years, but she finally made it to the top.

R13 speaks gibberish. Does not know shit from shinola. That will be all.

I remember this song from Looking for Mr. Goodbar

From the same era: Studio 54

Love Hangover is the poor man’s Love To Love You Baby.

I read somewhere that the reason LH exists is due to LTLYB.

Although Ross was not a disco artist, she got on the bandwagon after the success of Donna Summer's hit of 1975.

I can see why the song would be a hit. Couples could enjoy a nice steamy bump and grind together on the dance floor for the first part. Then, they could get down and boogie for the second part when the disco part began.

the backup singers at the transition to the faster section are SOOO fucking out of tune, they must have been paid in cocaine

Thief!

The song is perfect. But of course Moroder + Summer could toss off several a YEAR.

R21

How did this version come about? Well, Diana and Motown were not enthusiastic about disco, thinking it was a passing fad. The focus was to turn her into the black Barbra Streisand and this song did not fit into the plans. She had to be coaxed into recording it with vodka and ended up doing a damn good job! The song was added to her 1976 LP “Diana Ross” probably to give it more texture and show off her versatility.

In any case, it was not considered for single release. Then the members of the Fifth Dimension who had recently lost Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr picked up on the buzz coming from the clubs got over Diana’s album track. They went into the studio and recorded their version with the idea that they would fill the need for a single. Florence LaRue handled the lead vocals here.

When Motown got wind of that news, they rush released Diana’s song and both versions debuted the same week. Everyone knows that Diana reached #1 and the Fifth Dimension, well, it peaked at #80. They never recovered and never had another pop hit. The only way to get the disco version is on the promotional 7" single, and that took me some doing to get my paws on a clean copy. So give it a listen. Back in da day, clubs played both versions to change it up.

R21 prefer Diana's version. It's less cluttered.

R13, I just looked: Love Hangover was Diana Ross’ 4th Number 1 song out of her 6 as a solo artist. She also had 12 #1 songs as a lead singer of The Supremes.

[quote]Eric Kupper tried his best here, but still…

He took all the sex out of the song! It's about the bassline, bitch.

[quote] Although Ross was not a disco artist, she got on the bandwagon after the success of Donna Summer's hit of 1975.

Here are Billboards Top Disco Songs of all time. Love Hangover is there and Upside Down is not.

R26 is so correct.

Florence LaRue sounds like Mary Wilson but with a decent singing voice.

The song was co-writeen by two women, one white and British (Pam Sawer) and one black and American (Marilyn McLeod, who died recently).

This mix takes forever to get going as nineties club mixes tend to, but it correctly emphasises the bassline.

*co-written

Tired retread

R2, the slow trot-to-galloping arrangement emulated "Don't Leave Me This Way," recorded earlier by Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes, and covered by Thelma Houston in '76, after Diana Ross turned it down because it followed the same formula as "Love Hangover."

[quote]I can see why the song would be a hit. Couples could enjoy a nice steamy bump and grind together on the dance floor for the first part. Then, they could get down and boogie for the second part when the disco part began.

I was listening to a podcast the other day on the history of disco and they were saying that back then clubs would, every hour or so, play a slow song before getting back into the dance tracks. This song would've been great for doing that, all within the one song.

I only discovered this song in the last day or so. While I see others here are lukewarm on it, I really like it! And I don't really even like disco that much!

r7 it ended the night for two years until donna summer's "last dance" replaced it.