The Glow Of Love

Change | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 1, 1992)
• Original Release Date: 1980
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002KLE
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #144,621 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. A Lover's Holiday [A Jim Burgess Mix]

2. It's a Girl's Affair

3. Angel in My Pocket

4. The Glow of Love

5. Searching

6. The End

7. Searching [Parkside Remix][*]

Editorial Reviews

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Media Type: CD
Artist: CHANGE
Title: GLOW OF LOVE
Street Release Date: 09/01/1992
Domestic
Genre: SOUL/R & B

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The start of a brilliant career for Luther Vandross!!, December 28, 2004

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smoothjazzandmore (Ogdensburg, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Glow Of Love (Audio CD)

I remember this album from my high school days. The dance floor filled up once the DJ played the track, "Love's Holiday". I loved that song so much, I wound up buying the LP. The album will remind you of the group, "Chic" minus the signature Nile Rodgers' guitar. But clearly the best thing about this album is the vocal power of Luther Vandross!! The songs "Searching" & "The Glow of Love" were the best songs I've ever heard up to that point in my life. This is really a great CD and the start of a brilliant solo career for Vandross.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A future superstar is responsible for this album's GLOW, January 12, 2003

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Reginald D. Garrard "the G-man" (Camilla, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Glow Of Love (Audio CD)

The group's first single release ("Lover's Holiday") was a certifiable hit, but it wasn't until the Luther Vandross-led "Searching" and the title cut hit the airwaves did people take notice.

Vandross's melliflous vocals, mixed with the throbbing beat of the bass and the drum, made the two songs semi-legendary. The remainder of the album, while enjoyable, is routine music of the era, light enough for dancing but not memorable.

On the strength of "Searching" (rendered twice for good measure) and "The Glow of Love", the album gets four stars.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic 80s greatness!, July 26, 2007

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Olukayode Balogun (Leeds, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Glow Of Love (Audio CD)

If you're a fan of music from the 80s like I am, this is a must have. Change were initially dismissed by some critics as Chic soundalike wannabes when they emerged with this debut in 1980 but I loved them from the get go. It's true that they probably took inspiration from the sound (and success) of Chic but producer Jaques Fred Petrus took things a step further and as brilliant as Chic were, the sound of Change had a lot more depth and soul to it. Some of the tunes here, like "It's A Girl's Affair" and "Angel In My Pocket" - which featured a then relatively unknown singer by the name of Jocelyn Shaw; we now know her as Jocelyn Brown - are totally 80s and a bit dated but the title track, lead single and what was effectively the launch pad of Luther Vandross' superstar career, (not to mention one of my favourite sing-along-to songs of all time), is still very much playable today. Janet Jackson even sampled the song for the title track of her 2001 album All for You and introduced it to a whole new audience. Clever girl. (Incidentally, "All For You" was the last Janet Jackson album I thought was worth a penny of my hard-earned money but that's an entirely different story).

"Searching", the other song Vandross sang lead on, is also still very relevant and another of my favourites as is the opener, "A Lover's Holiday". The Parkside Remix of "Seaching" on this CD is interesting but I could've lived quite happily without it.

This album to me, is classic 80s greatness. I often feel very thankful that I was born when I was and was able, as a result, to enjoy music like this when it was in its heyday. They just don't make them like this anymore.