B-side "Stairway to Heaven" | Released February 1976 | |
Genre R&B, Philly soul, disco Length 2:50 (single edit)
6:35 (album version) Label Philadelphia International Writer(s) Kenny Gamble, Cary Gilbert, Leon Huff | ||
"Livin' for the Weekend" is a song by American R&B vocal group The O'Jays, released also the second single from their eleventh album Family Reunion (1975). It spent two weeks at number one on the R&B singles chart in the spring of that year. It was also successful on the pop charts, peaking at number twenty on the Billboard Hot 100. The B-side of the single, "Stairway to Heaven", proved to be just as popular. It has become a staple of Quiet Storm and adult contemporary R&B radio.
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