Have You Ever Been in Love (album)

Have You Ever Been in Love is the tenth studio album by recording artist Leo Sayer. It was originally released in November 1983 by Chrysalis (UK), and Warner Bros. (US) as the follow-up to his ninth album World Radio (1982). It was co-produced by the Grammy Award-winning Arif Mardin, in association with Alan Tarney, and Christopher Neil producing the other tracks. Sayer is credited as co-writer on the tracks "Don't Wait Until Tomorrow", and "Orchard Road".

The album reached number 15 on the UK Albums Chart,^[2] making it (including the compilation album, The Very Best of Leo Sayer) his eleventh successive Top 50 chart entry in the UK Albums Chart, in a period of over nine years. The album spawned three singles which first two reached the top sixty on the UK Singles Chart, including "Orchard Road", which would become one of Sayer's most popular songs, this would also become the last Sayer single to make the Top 20, peaking at number 16 and spending nine weeks on the chart.^[3]

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Till You Come Back to Me"	Stevie Wonder Clarence Paul Morris Broadnax	4:05
2.	"Sea of Heartbreak"	Hal David Paul Hampton	3:44
3.	"More Than I Can Say"	Sonny Curtis Jerry Allison	3:41
4.	"Darlin'"	Brian Wilson Mike Love	4:58
5.	"Don't Wait Until Tomorrow"	Leo Sayer Alan Tarney	2:43
6.	"How Beautiful You Are"	Peter Blegvad John Greaves	3:54
7.	"Orchard Road"	Sayer Tarney	4:27

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
8.	"Aviation"	Thurston Clarke	4:27
9.	"Heart (Stop Beating in Time)"	Robin Gibb Barry Gibb Maurice Gibb	4:35
10.	"Your Love Still Brings Me to My Knees"	Roger Cook B.F. Wood	3:01
11.	"Have You Ever Been in Love"	Andrew Hill Peter Sinfield John Danter	3:43
12.	"Wounded Heart"	Simon Climie Carlene Carter	4:13
13.	"Love Games"	Tom McKay	3:47
14.	"Never Had a Dream Come True"	Sylvia Moy Stevie Wonder Henry Cosby	4:51

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.^[4]

Leo Sayer – lead, harmony and background vocals
Al Hodge – guitar
Steve Khan – guitar
Steve Lukather – guitar
Hank Marvin – guitar
Derek Austin – synthesizer
Michael Boddicker – synthesizer
Bob Christianson – synthesizer
Ian Lynn – synthesizer
Alan Tarney – synthesizer, bass guitar, guitar, background vocals
James Stroud – Synclavier, LinnDrum programming
Robbie Buchanan – piano
Geoff Westley – piano
Mo Foster – bass guitar
Abraham Laboriel – bass guitar
Will Lee – bass guitar
Bob Jenkins – drums
Jeff Porcaro – drums
Casey Scheuerell – drums
Trevor Spencer – drums
Frank Ricotti – percussion, marimba
Sharon Campbell – background vocals
Alan Carvell – background vocals
Steve George – background vocals
John Kirby – background vocals
Marcy Levy – background vocals
Christopher Neil – background vocals
Gordon Neville – background vocals
Richard Page – background vocals
Jackie Rawe – background vocals

Production

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Producers: Arif Mardin, Alan Tarney, Christopher Neil

Chart (1983/84)	Peak Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[5]	20
UK Albums Chart^[6]	15

^ "New Albums" (PDF). Music Week. 29 October 1983. p. 5. Retrieved 22 August 2022.

^ "Leo Sayer: Artist". Official Charts. Archived from the original on 14 September 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2011.

^ "Orchard Road", offiialcharts.com. Retrieved 30 December 2019

^ The Fugitive liner notes. Charisma Records. 1983.

^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 265. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

^ "Leo Sayer: Artist". Official Charts. Archived from the original on 14 September 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2011.

Have You Ever Been in Love (album)

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