Songoftheday 10/23/15 - Stand up stand on your own, that's what they tell me you can make it alone...

"I Live For Your Love" - Natalie Cole
from the album Everlasting (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #13 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11

Today's song of the day is by singer Natalie Cole, whose father Nat "King" Cole had bridged the gap between R&B and pop music in the 40s and 50s, and herself had carved a respectable career in the 70s with her own dance and ballad hits like "This Will Be" and "Our Love". Returning in the late 80s after battling a drug and alcohol addiction, Natalie's 'comeback' single "Jump Start" leaped into the pop top-20 in the fall of 1987. The second single from the album, "I Live For Your Love", was a by-the-book MOR (middle of the road) ballad written by Pam Reswick, Steve Werful, and Alan Rich. Produced by Dennis Lambert (the Four Tops, Tavares, Five Star), the easy-listening nugget was the polar opposite of her previous sugary club single...

"I Live For Your Love" became the second top-20 pop hit in America from Cole's Everlasting album in February of 1988. The single climbed all the way to #2 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary radio chart, and stopped at #4 on their R&B (or "Black Singles") list. Internationally, it didn't get much notice, though it got to the halfway mark (#50) on the Canadian pop chart.

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and here's Natalie performing the song live in concert...

Up tomorrow: A British journeyman has no need for crying.