A Lover's Holiday

"A Lover's Holiday" was written by Davide Romani and Tanyayette Willoughby and produced by Jacques Fred Petrus, with Romani and Paolo Gianolio arranging and conducting the Goody Music Orchestra and Jim Burgess mixing. It was the debut single, released in March 1980 on Warner Bros., 6:26 on the 12-inch and 3:50 on the 7-inch, from The Glow of Love (the album tracklist has the Jim Burgess mix at 6:24). Fonoprint in Bologna was the main studio, with vocals recorded and mixed at the Power Station in New York. The 7-inch B-side was "The End" in the US and "The Glow of Love" in the UK.

In 1980 it reached number one on the US dance club chart, 4 on the US soul chart (a search summary said 5), 14 in the UK, 15 in the Dutch Top 40, 19 in Flanders, 24 in New Zealand and 40 on the Hot 100, and is described as a million seller. Omnivore Recordings says Zachary Sanders provided the vocals, while Wikipedia's band article lists him only for ad libs; Luther Vandross did not sing lead on this one, so we leave the lead vocalist unresolved. Happy Mondays sampled it on "Holiday" (1990), and Suga Free and Kokane on "SugaKane" (2021).

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