Australian singles chart:
Love is In the Air entered the Kent Music Report on 15 May 1978 and peaked at #3. It was #32 on the Top 100 of 1978.
Album:
The song is on Love Is in the Air which entered the Kent Music Report album charts on 30 October 1978 and peaked at #32.
Songwriters:
Harry Vanda, George Young
Producers:
Harry Vanda, George Young
Record label of Australian release:
Albert Productions
Original 1978 version:
1992 Strictly Ballroom version:
Wikipedia:
Love is In the Air became a worldwide hit in 1978, peaking at #3 on the Australian charts, #5 on the UK Singles Chart and #7 on the US pop chart. It was Young’s only US hit. It charted in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, USA, and West Germany.
John Paul Young said of the recording, “We actually did Love Is in the Air because we needed something for the German market. Standing in the Rain became a hit in the clubs over there and then on the charts, so we needed a follow-up. I’d been to Germany and heard the music. It was electronic mania, all clicks and electronic buzzes. So George and Harry gave it the treatment.”
At the Australian 1978 King of Pop Awards, the song won Most Popular Australian Single. In 1992, a remix of the song was released and featured on the soundtrack to the Golden Globe-nominated film Strictly Ballroom.
Young performed the song at the Closing Ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
In 2017, the song was selected for preservation in the National Film and Sound Archive’s Sounds of Australia collection.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Is_in_the_Air_(song)
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