Diana Ross Version
| "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Diana Ross | ||||
| from the album Why Do Fools Fall in Love | ||||
| B-side | "Think I'm In Love" | |||
| Released | September 25, 1981 | |||
| Format | 7" vinyl | |||
| Recorded | 1980 | |||
| Genre | Pop, Soul | |||
| Length | 2:51 | |||
| Label | RCA Records | |||
| Writer(s) | Morris Levy, Frankie Lymon | |||
| Producer | Diana Ross | |||
| Diana Ross singles chronology | ||||
|
||||
Diana Ross released a cover version on the RCA label in 1981, peaking at #7 on Billboard's Pop Singles Chart, and number four in the UK Singles Chart. The success of Ross' cover helped reintroduce a new generation of audiences to Lymon. Unlike the original, this version contains echoes of the soul of the 1960s. A remix of Ross' cover peaked at #36 on the UK charts in July, 1994.
Read more about this topic: Why Do Fools Fall In Love (song)
Famous quotes containing the words diana, ross and/or version:
“Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint.”
—Princess Diana (b. 1961)
“The New Yorker will be the magazine which is not edited for the old lady from Dubuque.”
—Harold W. Ross (1892–1951)
“Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with ‘the world’; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. Rather—speaking loosely and without trying to answer either Pilate’s question or Tarski’s—a version is to be taken to be true when it offends no unyielding beliefs and none of its own precepts.”
—Nelson Goodman (b. 1906)