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CLARINET in Bb & PIANO
Duration 4:10 Score 6 pg. 72 ms. Solo part: 2 pg. Piano part: 4 pg. Melodic range - p11th
Level: Early Intermediate. Here is a chance to demonstrate some subtle dynamics and flowing melody lines.
Program this for a recital, a school dance, or a nightclub number.
This is the ultimate Valentine's Day song! Billboard published a list called "Top 50 Love Songs of All Time" and listed this song as No. 1! Read it here: https://www.billboard.com/articles/list/6792625/top-50-love-songs-of-all-time
"Endless Love" is a song written by Lionel Richie and originally recorded as a duet between Richie and fellow soul singer Diana Ross. In this ballad, the singers declare their "endless love" for one another. It was covered by soul singer Luther Vandross with R&B singer Mariah Carey and also by country music singer Shania Twain. Richie's friend (and sometimes co-worker) Kenny Rogers also recorded the song. Billboard has named the original version as the greatest song duet of all time.[1]
Ross and Richie recorded the song for Motown, and it was used as the theme for Franco Zeffirelli's film adaptation of Scott Spencer's novel Endless Love. Produced by Richie and arranged by Gene Page, it was released as a single from the film's soundtrack in 1981. While the film Endless Love was a modest box-office success, the song became the second biggest-selling single of the year (first was "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes) in the U.S. and reached number 1 on the Hot 100, where it stayed nine weeks from August 15 to October 10, 1981. It also topped the Billboard R&B chart and the Adult Contemporary chart and reached number 7 in the UK. It also became the most successful duet of the rock era, surpassing the Everly Brothers' 1957 hit "Wake Up Little Susie," which spent four weeks at number one. Both songs spent six months on the chart, with "Endless Love" eclipsing the Everlies' hit by one week.[2]
The soulful composition became the biggest-selling single of Ross' career, and her 18th and final career number-one single (including her work with The Supremes). It also was Richie's highest charting single, and the first of several hits for Richie during the 1980s. Ross recorded a solo version of the song for her first RCA Records album, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, the duet version being her last hit on Motown. The song was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for Richie and was the second song with which Ross was involved that was nominated for an Oscar. It also won a 1982 American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Single." Wikipedia
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