Love of a Lifetime (FireHouse song) explained

Love of a Lifetime
Cover:	FHLoveLifetime.JPG
Caption:	Cover of Japanese CD release
Type:	single
Artist:	FireHouse
Album:	FireHouse
B-Side:	"Helpless" All She Wrote
Recorded:	1990
Genre:	Glam metal^[1]
Label:	Epic Sony Music
Producer:	David Prater Bruce Dickinsom
Prev Title:	Don't Treat Me Bad
Prev Year:	1991
Next Title:	All She Wrote
Next Year:	1991

"Love of a Lifetime" is a song performed by the American rock band FireHouse. It was the band's third single and its highest-charting single in the United States, entering the Billboard Hot 100 June 29, 1991 at No. 81 and peaking at No. 5 the week of September 28, 1991. It is also the band's first and most popular power ballad. The song was written by vocalist C. J. Snare and guitarist Bill Leverty.^[2]

The song is arguably what FireHouse is most known for, and has been used as a first dance song at countless weddings since its release. In a 2005 interview, Snare commented "now I have the benefit of time to look back over this and there isn't a show that goes by where people don't come up to us and are like "'Love of a Lifetime' - we got married to that song!"^[3]

Origin

The song was written by C. J. Snare; he wrote it while playing solo gigs at a Holiday Inn. When the band brought the demos for their first album to Epic Records, the label felt that the album needed a stronger ballad. Snare said "I remember raising my hand sheepishly and saying 'Well, I have a song...,' so we played it for them and they absolutely loved it and it did become a big hit."

Cover versions

The project Collage recorded the song in 1998 and released it as a single. It peaked at No. 4 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart^[4] and was the last single released by the project.

Country singer Katie Armiger recorded a cover version on her eponymous first album in 2007.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1991)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)^[5]	15
US Billboard Hot 100^[6]	5
US Billboard Adult Contemporary	37

Year-end charts

References

1. Web site: Bowar. Chad. Best 20 Hair Metal Ballads of the '80s and '90s. 2021-02-24. LiveAbout. en.
2. Web site: Firehouse – Love Of A Lifetime 90's Rock Videos . 31 October 2007 . 90srockvideos.wordpress.com. 2015-08-22.
3. Web site: C.J. Snare Interview with RockEyez. 2005 Rock Eyez. 2007-12-30.
4. Book: Billboard. 1998-11-21. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. 0006-2510. 38. 2015-08-22.
5. Book: Ryan, Gavin. Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. 2011. Moonlight Publishing. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia. pdf. 103.
6. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn

   . Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012 . Joel Whitburn . 2013 . Record Research . 297.

7. Web site: Billboard Top 100 - 1991 . 2009-09-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090707155835/http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1991 . 2009-07-07 .

External links

• Music Video for "Love of a Lifetime"