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;">Ross
and Richie recorded the song for Motown, and it was used
as the theme for the film Endless
Love starring Brooke Shields.
Produced by Richie and arranged
by Gene
Page, it was released as
a single from the film's soundtrack in 1981. While the film Endless
Love was a failure, the song became the second biggest-selling single of the
year
(first was "Physical"
by Olivia
Newton-John) in the U.S. and landed at number 1 on Billboard's
Hot 100, where
it
stayed for nine weeks from August 9 to October 10, 1981. It also topped
the
Billboard R&B
chart and the Adult
Contemporary chart, and
landed at number 7 in the UK.
The
soulful composition became the biggest-selling single of Ross' career,
while it was one of several hits for Richie as the 1980s progressed.
Ross
recorded a solo version of the song for her first RCA Records album, Why
Do Fools Fall in
Love?, but the famous version was her last hit on Motown. The song
was
nominated for an Academy
Award for Best
Original Song for Richie, and was the second song with which Ross
was
involved that was nominated for an Oscar. It also won a 1982 American Music
Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Single.
The
song was included in Adam Sandler's
movie Happy Gilmore when Happy and his girlfriend
Virginia are ice skating, and the song begins to play. Virginia says to
Happy "I
thought we were just going to be friends." To which he responds,
"Friends listen
to Endless Love in the dark."
The
song was included as well in the third season of Friends, in which Phoebe walks into Chandler and Joey´s flat, just
to find Chandler singing the
song and holding Lionel Ritchie's first album, even though the song is
included
in his fourth album, Back
to Front and also
in a special 1981 single.[1]
On
an episode of The Steve
Harvey Show, Steve and
Regina perform the song at a janitor's urging (who thought they were
Ross and
Richie); at the end of the song, the janitor quips "no wonder you guys
haven't
had a hit in a while."
The
song was also one of the most popular wedding dedication songs in the
1980s.
