Oh No (Commodores song)

"Oh No"
Single by Commodores
from the album In the Pocket
B-side"Lovin' You"
ReleasedSeptember 1981
GenrePop, R&B
LabelMotown
Songwriter(s)Lionel Richie
Producer(s)James Anthony Carmichael, Commodores
Commodores singles chronology
"Lady (You Bring Me Up)"
(1981)
"Oh No"
(1981)
"Why You Wanna Try Me"
(1982)

"Oh No" is an R&B ballad from the 1981 Commodores album In the Pocket. Written by Lionel Richie, the song was released as a single in 1981, being his last hit with the Commodores before going solo.

Similarities of the song's opening bars can be heard in Richie's 1981 duet "Endless Love" with Diana Ross.

Record World praised "the combination of delicate piano melodies and Lionel Richie Jr.'s emotional lead vocal."[1]

This song was also featured in the 1982 movie The Last American Virgin.[2]

  1. ^ "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. September 26, 1981. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  2. ^ Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack The Last American Virgin (Special Edition) (CD), retrieved 2021-07-11