Penny Lover


"Penny Lover" is the title of the fifth and final single released from Lionel Richie's multi-platinum and Grammy Award-winning 1983 album, Can't Slow Down. The song was written by Richie and his then-wife, Brenda Harvey Richie.
As with all the other singles taken from Can't Slow Down, "Penny Lover" was a top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, spending two weeks at number 8 in December 1984. The song reached an identical number 8 peak position on the Billboard R&B chart, while on the Billboard adult contemporary chart, the song logged four weeks at number 1. On the UK Singles Chart, the song reached number 18. In Canada in peaked at number 12 on the RPM Singles chart.
In a song review printed in Billboard by an anonymous writer in 1984, "Penny Lover" was described as "another of his unfailingly effective universal-appeal ballads".

Music video

The music video was directed by Bob Giraldi, who had also directed "Running with the Night" and "Hello".

Track listings

7" single
  1. "Penny Lover" – 3:46
  2. "Tell Me" – 4:06
12" single
  1. "Penny Lover" – 5:33
  2. "You Are" – 5:03
  3. "My Love" – 4:05

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