| "Casanova" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
&sq=&lang=&file=File:LevertCasanova.jpg) | ||||
| Single by LeVert | ||||
| from the album The Big Throwdown | ||||
| Released | June 20, 1987 | |||
| Genre | New jack swing[1] | |||
| Length | 6:19 | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Reggie Calloway | |||
| Producer(s) | Reggie Calloway | |||
| LeVert singles chronology | ||||
| ||||
"Casanova" is a 1987 single by American R&B vocal group LeVert, written and produced by Reggie Calloway. It reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and number nine on the UK Singles Chart, LeVert's only Top Ten (and Top-40) on either chart. It was the first new jack swing song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart. It topped the chart for two weeks, becoming the group's second number-one.[2] It has become a standard number for New Orleans brass bands following its popularization by the Rebirth Brass Band.[3] The song is featured in 1987's The Pick-Up Artist, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Molly Ringwald, and appears on the soundtrack album of the Whoopi Goldberg movie Fatal Beauty, released the same year.
- ^ Reynolds, Mark (December 3, 2006). "Gerald Levert and the Black Pop Nobody Knows, but Should". PopMatters. Retrieved July 26, 2016.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research. p. 346.
- ^ Cohn, Rosalie (October 2010). "The New Generation of Brass Bands: Live For Today". Retrieved October 13, 2010.