Is It Love You're After?

1979 single by Rose Royce

"Is It Love You're After?"

Single by Rose Royce

from the album Rainbow Connection IV

B-side

"You Can't Run From Yourself"

Released

1979

Recorded

1979

Genre

Disco

Length

3:50

Label

Warner Bros. Records

Songwriter(s)

Miles Gregory

Rose Royce singles chronology

"First Come, First Serve"
(1979)

"Is It Love You're After?"
(1979)

"What You Waitin' For"
(1979)

Official video

"Is It Love You're After?" on YouTube

"Is It Love You're After?" is a 1979 song by Rose Royce from the 1979 album Rainbow Connection IV,^[1] which was the last album with lead singer Gwen Dickey before she left to embark on a solo career. It was also the band's fourth highest-charting single in the UK.

Chart performance

Chart	Peak Position
Belgium	23
Ireland	17
Netherlands	42
UK (The Official Charts Company)^[2]	13
US	105
US Hot Soul Singles^[3]	31

Personnel

Gwen Dickey – lead vocals
Kenny Copeland – trumpet
Kenji Brown – guitar
Lequeint "Duke" Jobe – bass
Michael Nash – keyboards
Henry Garner – drums
Freddie Dunn – trumpet
Michael Moore – saxophone
Terry Santiel – congas

Samples

The brass riff of the song was sampled for S'Express' 1988 song "Theme From S'Express," which reached no. 1 in the UK.^[4]

References

^ Henderson, Alex. Rainbow Connection IV review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-05-08.
^ "officialcharts.com". officialcharts.com. Retrieved October 31, 2022.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research. p. 501.
^ "www.whosampled.com". Retrieved October 31, 2022.