Falling (LeBlanc and Carr song) explained

Falling
Cover:Falling_-_LeBlanc_&_Carr.jpg
Type:single
Artist:LeBlanc & Carr
Album:Midnight Light
B-Side:I Believe That We
Released:October 1977
Genre:Soft rock
Label:Big Tree
Producer:Pete Carr
Prev Title:Hound Dog Man (Play It Again)
Prev Year:1977
Next Title:Midnight Light
Next Year:1978

"Falling" is a 1977 song by Lenny LeBlanc and Pete Carr. It was their highest-charting single, peaking at number 13 in the United States during the winter of 1978. It was the first of two charting singles from their Midnight Light LP.

"Falling" spent 28 weeks on the American charts. On Cash Box, the song reached number 11. "Falling" also hit number 11 on the Adult Contemporary chart as well as Canadian Pop Singles.[1]

A song originally recorded by LeBlanc in 1976, "Sharing the Night Together", became a bigger hit than "Falling" when covered and released by Dr. Hook in the fall of 1978. (U.S. number 6, Canada number 3).

Chart history

Weekly charts

Chart (1977–1978)Peak
position
Canada RPM Top Singles11
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary[2] 25
US Billboard Hot 100[3] 13
US Billboard Adult Contemporary11
US Cash Box Top 100 [4] 11

Year-end charts

Chart (1978)Rank
Canada RPM Top Singles [5] 90
US Billboard Hot 100[6] 79
US Cash Box [7] 83

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . 1978-04-11 . 2018-04-19.
  2. Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . 1978-05-06 . 2018-02-19.
  3. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 -
  4. Web site: Cash Box Top 100 Singles, March 18, 1978 . April 20, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150214120200/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/19780318.html . February 14, 2015 . dead .
  5. Web site: Top 200 Singles of '78 – Volume 30, No. 14, December 30 1978 . . 17 July 2013 . . February 9, 2018.
  6. Web site: Top 100 Hits of 1978/Top 100 Songs of 1978. musicoutfitters.com . 1 December 2017.
  7. http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/1978YESP.html Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 30, 1978