Love Ballad
L.T.D.
1976
Annual listening list: initial release cycle, with recent carryovers; not an original-release-date field. Release chronology remains partly unverified.
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About L.T.D.
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L.T.D. took its name from Love, Togetherness and Devotion, developing as an American ensemble whose sound connected funk with R&B. Its arrangements combined a substantial horn section with keyboards and rhythm instruments. Jeffrey Osborne initially worked as a drummer before becoming a lead vocalist. The album Love to the World included Love Ballad in 1976, while later recordings such as Holding On (When Love Is Gone) and Shine On extended the group's repertoire across ballads and dance-oriented material.
Artist background sources
L.T.D. - Universal Music France licensed biography
Read the expanded group name, funk/R&B identity, instrumentation, Osborne role transition and named album/singles. Conflicting location details, full lineup enumeration, current membership and chart totals are omitted. | Retrieved 2026-10-18
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-18. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
Retained annual-list context
Love Ballad by L.T.D. is included for 1976 on the basis of the cited chart-associated source. This establishes the annual connection, not the circumstances in which the song was written. No reliable song-specific account of its inspiration was established in this review.
Annual-list context only; songwriting inspiration remains unestablished
Hot 100 weekly data mirror, 1976-12-25
Secondary source reviewed for title, artist and annual chart association only. Supplemental selection, not an official annual rank.
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Editorial artist-repertoire classification
Hot 100 weekly data mirror, 1976-12-25
Secondary source reviewed for title, artist and annual chart association only. Supplemental selection, not an official annual rank.
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