# Who sang "Power of Love" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 26, 2017, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743 "2017-11-26T09:43:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/1 "2017-11-26T09:43:32Z")
Just settling a bet - which of the above three (or more!) unrelated 1980s songs comes first to mind when you hear the title “The Power of Love”? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/2 "2017-11-26T09:50:54Z")
From ‘Back to the future’ ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/3 "2017-11-26T10:01:31Z")
Huey Lewis - I’ve never heard of the Frankie Goes to Hollywood song, and my knowledge of the Jennifer Rush one was, until looking it up, knowing the song, but having no idea who sang it, and having taken the wrong lyric to be the title. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/4 "2017-11-26T10:09:24Z")
For reference: [Huey Lewis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkAVfsw5xSQ) [Jennifer Rush](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5boRQcTvnwU) [Frankie Goes to Hollywood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyoTvgPn0rU) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/5 "2017-11-26T10:15:03Z")
I thought it was _ **Candy Goes to Hollywood** _. 😕 > **[Candy Goes to Hollywood (1979) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123627/?ref_=ttmi_tt)** > > Candy Goes to Hollywood: Directed by Gail Palmer. With Carol Connors, Wendy O. Williams, John Leslie, Richard Pacheco. Bubble-brained Candy Christian travels to Hollywood to make it big and instead gets taken under the wing of a sleazy 'talent agent'... ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/6 "2017-11-26T11:31:39Z")
There were other songs called ‘Power of Love’ apart from Huey Lewis? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/7 "2017-11-26T12:12:59Z")
There were if you grew up in the 80’s! Don’t get me wrong - Huey Lewis was my first response, too. But this thread came out of an argument I had at work about who sung it, and it took an embarrassing amount of time before we realized that we weren’t talking about the same song. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/8 "2017-11-26T12:18:23Z")
Don’t need no credit card - Huey Lewis and the News. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/9 "2017-11-26T12:22:22Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > There were if you grew up in the 80’s! Yeah…I’m having a hard time imagining growing up in the 80s and not having ‘I’m your ladyyyyy’ being belted out immediately causing you to flashback. \>\_\> (Even if you never knew the title.) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/10 "2017-11-26T12:24:28Z")
Huey and The News came to mind first, Celine second. I never heard of Jennifer Rush and still don’t know who she is as the video linked is not available in my country. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/11 "2017-11-26T12:24:39Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I thought it was _ **Candy Goes to Hollywood** _. 😕 > > [Candy Goes to Hollywood (1979) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123627/?ref_=ttmi_tt) [Frankie say “Relax, Don’t Do It”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Goes_to_Hollywood) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/12 "2017-11-26T12:37:33Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Huey and The News came to mind first, Celine second. I never heard of Jennifer Rush and still don’t know who she is as the video linked is not available in my country. Celine’s version was an (inferior) cover of Rush’s. I’m surprised that so many people are unfamiliar with Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Were they unknown in the States, beyond “Relax”? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/13 "2017-11-26T12:46:15Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > [Frankie say “Relax, Don’t Do It”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Goes_to_Hollywood) IIRC, that was in one of the creepier scenes in _Body Double_. I think that movie gave me flashbacks. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/14 "2017-11-26T13:47:39Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Celine’s version was an (inferior) cover of Rush’s. > > I’m surprised that so many people are unfamiliar with Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Were they unknown in the States, beyond “Relax”? Two Tribes was a big hit in southern California. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/15 "2017-11-26T13:50:36Z")
DeeeLite also has a version on The Power of Love [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vi8wsvW20Ww/hqdefault.jpg "Deee-Lite- Power of Love (World Clique)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi8wsvW20Ww) ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/16 "2017-11-26T14:02:13Z")
Wow, so I’m the only one so far for whom the Frankie Goes to Hollywood version popped up first? Wouldn’t have thought that. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/17 "2017-11-26T14:32:07Z")
[Jennifer Rush that can be seen in the US](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_zHQ6kFuQ0). I would not call this superior. I would not call it inferior either. It is exactly the same. Exactly. Celine should be ashamed of herself, copying so blatantly. Although a thousand demerits to Jennifer for that horribly '80s Mafioso video. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/18 "2017-11-26T14:36:37Z")
I asked my husband who sings Power of Love and he said [Luther Vandross.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlLsbL2LJKw) I do not remember this song at all. It supposedly won awards. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/19 "2017-11-26T15:11:15Z")
None. The answer is Arlo Guthrie. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/20 "2017-11-26T15:14:26Z")
I only know of the Huey Lewis one and I am the right generation being class of '84. It was a big hit. For Frankie Goes to Hollywood; I only remember _Relax._ Jennifer Rush I do not remember at all. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743.md?page=2)