Endless Love

Release: 1981

Release: 1981Source checked

V3.6 reconciles the original release year with the reviewed Artist Essentials entry for this exact retained recording ID. Year precision is used; an album-first release is not silently replaced by a later single, reissue or annual-list year. The original recording is documented in the 1981 release history of Endless Love. Only year precision is assigned; later singles, charts, remasters and live versions do not establish its first release. The original duet recording retains 1981 in the licensed track metadata and the Motown account. Later compilations, awards and country-duet rerecordings do not date this performance.

The large badge identifies this listening list, not a newly issued recording. Later reissues and renewed chart popularity do not replace an original release date. How years are assigned.

Owner-supplied release annotations
Reported dates in 1981.html. Not independently established; neighboring dates can reflect album/single or regional differences.

All the Great Hits - recording-specific original years
The program preserves original recording fields for Reach Out and Touch and Remember Me in 1970, Good Morning Heartache in 1972, Theme from Mahogany in 1975, It's My Turn in 1980 and Endless Love in 1981. The compilation's 1981/2015 package dates do not date those older performances.

Classic Motown - Diana Ross solo and duet history
The label distinguishes the Supremes from the 1970 solo career, the 1972 Lady Sings the Blues film and original 1981 Lionel Richie duet. Unrelated Mahogany and Motown-departure date statements are not used as recording release evidence.

Back to Front - original recording years and new 1992 songs
The program retains Endless Love in 1981 and Say You, Say Me in 1985. Do It to Me, My Destiny and Love, Oh Love belong to its new 1992 material. Short All Night Long, Running with the Night and Penny Lover presentations are separate from the selected full original album items; the anthology does not redate older tracks.

Classic Motown - original Diana Ross duet context
The label explicitly places the original Lionel Richie Endless Love duet in 1981. This corroborates the recording metadata; unrelated Mahogany and Motown-departure date claims are not used.

Classic Motown - original Lionel Richie solo chronology
The label distinguishes the 1982 solo debut, 1983 Can't Slow Down, original Diana Ross duet and later Tuskegee country rerecordings. It explicitly identifies Kenny Rogers's supporting vocal on My Love. The Grammy ceremony years and present-day sales language are not release dates.