Is It Love You're After? Explained

Is It Love You're After?
Type:	single
Artist:	Rose Royce
Album:	Rainbow Connection IV
B-Side:	You Can't Run From Yourself
Released:	1979
Recorded:	1979
Genre:	Disco
Length:	3:50
Label:	Warner Bros. Records
Prev Title:	First Come, First Serve
Prev Year:	1979
Next Title:	What You Waitin' For
Next Year:	1979

"Is It Love You're After?" is a 1979 song by Rose Royce from the 1979 album Rainbow Connection IV, which was the last album with lead singer Gwen Dickey before she left to embark on a solo career. It was also the band's fourth highest-charting single in the UK.

Chart performance

Chart	PeakPosition
Belgium	23
Ireland	17
Netherlands	42
UK (The Official Charts Company)^[1]	13
US	105
US Hot Soul Singles^[2]	31

Personnel

• Gwen Dickey – lead vocals
• Kenny Copeland – trumpet
• Kenji Brown – guitar
• Lequeint "Duke" Jobe – bass
• Michael Nash – keyboards
• Henry Garner – drums
• Freddie Dunn – trumpet
• Michael Moore – saxophone
• Terry Santiel – congas

Samples

• The brass riff of the song was sampled for S'Express' 1988 song "Theme From S'Express," which reached no. 1 in the UK.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: officialcharts.com. officialcharts.com. October 31, 2022.
2. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 501.
3. Web site: www.whosampled.com. October 31, 2022.