Easy to Love

It's easy to love when I love someone like you

It's easy to feel when you feel the way I do

You know love don't come easy and love don't come fast

But when love comes to you, you gotta make it last

On the day that I met you, I knew it could be

So easy for you and so easy for me

It's easy to love when I love someone like you, babe

It's easy to feel when you feel the way I do, babe

Like the stars in the night seem to shine from above

But that's the way I love to shine when you give me your love

And your love satisfies me like a natural high

From the soles of my feet to the top of the sky

It's easy to love when I love someone like you

It's easy to feel when you feel the way I do

Oh, oh, oh

You know love don't come easy, and love don't come fast

But when love comes to you, you gotta make it last

On the day that I met you, I knew it would be

So easy for you and so easy for me

It's easy to love when I love someone like you, babe

It's easy to feel when you feel the way I do, babe

It's easy to love when I love someone like you, babe

It's easy to love It's easy to love

Yeah, so easy to love Yeah, so easy to love Yeah, so easy to love

Leo Sayer

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　His Disco version Leo Sayer

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The sound and feel of "Easy To Love" mirrors the production touches on

Boz Scaggs 1976 hit "Lowdown" and the reason why should be obvious, since TOTO members to be, David Paich (who arranged and conducted the strings for this single) and Jeff Porcaro (who laid down the funky foundation with his drumming played on both. They completely mastered the bittersweet R & B sound here on "Easy To Love" and then perfected it with Toto's single "Georgy Porgy" featuring vocals from protege Cheryl Lynn the following year. Rounding out the professionals who played on this track are Ray Parker Jr and jazz legend

Lee Ritenour on guitars, Michael Omartian on keyboards and Bobbye Hall, percussionist. This song was written by Leo with Albert Hammond after Leo's platinum success with the #1 hit "When I Need You" which Hammond had written with Carole Bayer Sager. Hammond is a British singer/songwriter who had a smattering of solo pop hits in the US starting with "It Never Rains In Southern California" (#5, 1972) and ending with 1975's atmospheric #91 pop hit "99 Miles From L.A." He had much more success writing for others, like Leapy Lee's 1968 #16 "Little Arrows", The Pipkins 1970 novelty hit "Gimme Dat Ding" which went all the way to #9 pop and "The Air That I Breathe" a #6 hit from 1974 as covered by

The Hollies. "The Air That I Breathe" was originally recorded by Hammond for his 1972 LP, "It Never Rains In Souther California". Hammond continued his collaborative efforts, with talents like ex-Motown writer/producer Hal David on

"To All The Girls I've Loved Before" as recorded by Julio Iglesias & , then on to two major hits with the Queen of the pop hooks, Diane Warren on Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now", Chicago's "Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love", then worked with John Bettis on the 1988 Summer Olympic Theme

"One Moment In Time" as made famous by Whitney Houston. Leo relates that "Easy To Love" was also easy to write too, since all you had to do was to "show Hammond a piano and he writes a hit." In 1978, French Canadian R&B artist Boule Noire (which translates to "Black Ball" a sly play on words about his particular style of Afro) recorded a french version of "Easy To Love" as "Aimer D'Amour" with Nanette Workman as a duet. If you listen to this song, Leo sings the chorus in falsetto then drops a couple of octaves for the verses which made it a perfect fit for the Quebec based vocalists. Their version went triple platinum in Canada in 1978 and then they almost repeated the feat in 1990, when French and European DJ's resurrected the 12 year old song, resulting in 800,000 copies being sold in those countries. Some songs just never get old, this one still sounds as engaging and enticing as it was when I first heard it in late November of 1977.