| "I Specialize in Love" | ||||
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| Single by Sharon Brown | ||||
| Released | March 1982 | |||
| Recorded | 1981 | |||
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| Length | 4:29 (7" version) 7:15 (12" version) | |||
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| Producer(s) | Eddie O'Loughlin | |||
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"I Specialize in Love" is a song written by Lotti Golden and Richard Scher. Mixed by Tee Scott, the song was a club hit in the early 1980s when recorded by American singer Sharon Brown, the niece of songwriter Phil Medley. Released as a single in March 1982, by Profile Records, it spent three weeks at number two on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart,[2] her only song to reach this survey. The single also charted on the UK Singles Chart, becoming an international club hit. A remixed version of the song was released in 1994, entering the UK Singles Chart for a second time.[3]
Brian Chin of Billboard called "I Specialize in Love" a "very skillful pastiche of a whole passel of recent street and fusion sounds, along with a simple rap."[4]
- ^ "The Building Blocks of Boogie: The Origins of a Retrospective Genre". Electro Funk Roots. 3 October 2011. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco 1974-2003, (Record Research Inc.), page 46.
- ^ "Singers Whose Surname Is Brown That Have Had Hits In The UK Chart". Music-musicians.knoji.com. 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
- ^ Dance Trax (with Brian Chin) (Billboard) Vol. 94 (42). Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Oct 23, 1982. p. 34