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Reunited (song)

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B-side
  
"Easy as Pie"

Recorded
  
1977

Length
  
5:46

Format
  
7" single

Genre
  
R&B

Released
  
March 1979 (1979) (U.S.)

"Reunited" was a hit song for R&B vocal duo Peaches & Herb. As the second single release from their 1978 album, 2 Hot, the song was a huge crossover smash, topping both the pop and soul charts. It spent four weeks at number one on both the R&B singles chart and the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1979 and sold over 2 million copies. Billboard ranked it as the No. 5 song for 1979. In Canada, "Reunited" likewise reached number one and was the No. 9 song for the year.

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The song was written by Dino Fekaris and Freddie Perren, and was the sequel song to the duo's 1968 hit "(We'll Be) United", which was itself a cover of The Intruders' original 1966 hit.

Cover versions

  • A version by Louise Mandrell and R. C. Bannon reached #13 on the Hot Country Singles chart in 1979.
  • It was regularly covered by Faith No More as the intro song to the live shows on their 2009/2010 reunion tour.
  • It was sung by David Hasselhoff at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
  • Lulu recorded a version with Cliff Richard for her Together album.
  • Raven-Symoné and Bobb'e J. Thompson sang "Reunited" in 2005 in the Season 3 episode of That's So Raven "The Grill Next Door".

    • Sampled versions

  • South Korean rapper Cho PD sampled in First Love (첫사랑) from the 2007 album Money Talks.
  • Peaches and Herb's version appears in a 2014 TV commercial for H&R Block. It appears in the TV shows Son of the Beach, Haven, Grounded for Life, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and was also used as the theme for the BBC TV series Stars Reunited between 2003 and 2004.

    • References

    Reunited (song) Wikipedia
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