Still (Commodores song)

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"Still"
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Single by Commodores
from the album Midnight Magic
B-side"Such a Woman"
ReleasedSeptember 14, 1979 (US)
Genre
Length5:50
3:45 (single edit)
LabelMotown
SongwriterLionel Richie
ProducersJames Anthony Carmichael, Commodores
Commodores singles chronology
"Sail On"
(1979) 		"Still"
(1979) 		"Wonderland"
(1979)

"Still" is a 1979 song by the soul music group the Commodores. It was released as a single on Motown Records with "Such a Woman" as the B-side. The song appears on their 1979 hit album Midnight Magic.[2] This was their last No. 1 hit in the United States.

Cash Box said it was a "tender, lilting ballad" with "a soft, building piano figure" and "expressive, plaintive lead vocal."[3] Billboard praised the " poignant lyric and slow, romantic melodyline."[4] Record World said that "The fragile piano and sensitive vocal ballad make an impact with a simple arrangement that bursts into a horn/string melodrama."[5]

Chart history

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Cover versions

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In 1981, actor-singer John Schneider took a cover version to No. 69 on the pop chart. It was the B-side to his country single "Them Good Ol' Boys Are Bad", which reached No. 13 on the country chart.[17]

In 1991, UK artist Shirley Bassey covered this song on her album titled, "Keep The Music Playing". This album was a hit both in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Shirley included this song in her worldwide concert line-up throughout the 1990s.

The song was covered in a Cantonese version by Hong Kong singer Alan Tam as "My Heart Is Only You" (我的心只有你).

References

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