Love Affair - Everlasting love - 1983 - Sound Faulty

Love Affair was a London based pop, soul, R&B group formed in 1966. The group had several UK Singles Chart Top 10 hits, including the number one success "Everlasting Love".

Love Affair's first single, "She Smiled Sweetly", written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, released on Decca Records flopped, but it reached the top of the UK Singles Chart in January 1968 with "Everlasting Love". By this time the group had relocated to CBS Records. The song was first recorded by Robert Knight, whose version had reached No. 13 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the autumn of 1967, and it was previously offered to the Marmalade, who turned it down as they thought it too pop-oriented for them. On the B-side was a cover version "Gone Are the Songs of Yesterday" by Phillip Goodhand-Tait. After its success, Goodhand-Tait saw an opportunity and signed a contract with The Love Affair's managers John Cockell and Sid Bacon. Goodhand-Tait would go on to write many more hits for The Love Affair - http://www.45-rpm.org.uk/dirl/lovea.htm - Courtesy Wikipedia