Always and Forever (Heatwave song)

"Always and Forever"
Side A of US 7-inch single
Single by Heatwave
from the album Too Hot to Handle
B-side
  • "Mind Blowing Decisions" (UK)
  • "Super Soul Sister" (US)
Released3 December 1977
Recorded1976
GenreR&B, soul
Length
  • 3:32 (single edit)
  • 6:14 (album version)
Label
Songwriter(s)Rod Temperton
Producer(s)Barry Blue
Heatwave singles chronology
"Too Hot to Handle"
(1977)
"Always and Forever"
(1977)
"The Groove Line"
(1978)

"Always and Forever" is an R&B song written by Rod Temperton and produced by Barry Blue. It was first recorded by the British-based multinational funk-disco band Heatwave in 1976. Released as a single on 3 December 1977, the song is included on Heatwave's debut album Too Hot to Handle (1976) and has been covered by numerous artists, becoming something of a standard.

The song reached number 18 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in March 1978 after peaking at number two on the US Billboard R&B chart, the band's highest showing on that tally. The single was certified platinum by the RIAA on 6 September 2001.[1][2] In the UK, the songs "Too Hot to Handle" and "The Groove Line" were released before a double A-sided "Always and Forever" / "Mind Blowing Decisions" was issued in November 1978. This became the band's second top-10 hit on the UK Singles Chart when it spent two weeks at number nine in December.

  1. ^ "RIAA platinum certification - Heatwave - Always and Forever", RIAA, retrieved 12 November 2017
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2010). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 9th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 293.