# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/41 "2017-11-27T12:53:56Z")
I voted for Huey Lewis. I couldn’t immediately remember which one of Celine’s songs fit the description, though of course I recognized it once the video started. Never heard Frankie’s song and as was mentioned, pretty much if you weren’t into them the only songs of theirs you’d be likely to know are \*Relax \*and _Two Tribes_. As an aside, did the popular pronunciation of love as “lurve” come from mocking Celine?She doesn’t do it too much in this song but whenever someone says it that’s way I always think that where the joke must come from. ---
**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 27, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/42 "2017-11-27T14:03:43Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Seriously dude? A cover is when someone sings the same song. A blatant copy is when someone lifts the vocals off a track and add the same damned vocals with the same intonation, style and timbre so that you cannot tell them apart. Sure, a more well-known singer can do this and when they do, they should be ashamed of themselves. I doubt Todd Rundgren felt ashamed of [Good Vibrations](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbk2UFPEIAA&app=desktop). ---
**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 27, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/43 "2017-11-27T15:35:42Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I doubt Todd Rundgren felt ashamed of [Good Vibrations](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbk2UFPEIAA&app=desktop). I doubt Celine Dion feels ashamed of The Power of Love. She should, though. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/44 "2017-11-27T17:07:53Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I doubt Todd Rundgren felt ashamed of [Good Vibrations](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbk2UFPEIAA&app=desktop). I like Todd Rundgren, but I never got the point of the first half of that album. Definitely not a fan of those types of covers. If I want to listen to “Good Vibrations,” done in the style of the Beach Boys, I’ll listen to the original. It cannot be improved upon in its original form, so why copy it? It’s just throwaway garbage to me. ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/45 "2017-11-27T17:29:36Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Seriously dude? A cover is when someone sings the same song. A blatant copy is when someone lifts the vocals off a track and add the same damned vocals with the same intonation, style and timbre so that you cannot tell them apart. Sure, a more well-known singer can do this and when they do, they should be ashamed of themselves. Yes, seriously. And I’m sure Celine is extremely ashamed of singing it. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/46 "2017-11-27T18:33:52Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I like Todd Rundgren, but I never got the point of the first half of that album. Todd’s point was that he wanted to pay homage to the songs that influenced him _faithfully_–along the same lines that classical music is performed by orchestras and symphonies. Thus the album’s name. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/47 "2017-11-27T18:37:28Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Todd’s point was that he wanted to pay homage to the songs that influenced him _faithfully_–along the same lines that classical music is performed by orchestras and symphonies. Thus the album’s name. Well, yes, I understand the name. I just find it uninteresting. I’m sure Todd doesn’t care about my opinion, though. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/48 "2017-11-28T08:18:54Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > 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) The Jennifer Rush video link doesn’t work for me. Here’s another to a video of the same song: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b\_zHQ6kFuQ0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_zHQ6kFuQ0) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/49 "2017-11-28T08:41:44Z")
_Frankie Goes To Hollywood_’s is the most beautiful, and speaking as an atheist, a particularly great music video. _Huey Lewis_’s is the most fun, and _Back to the Future_ is one of my top 5 movies. So they both rate higher for me. However, whenever I hear the title, the one my brain goes to is always _Jennifer Rush_’s. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/50 "2017-11-28T13:59:27Z")
IIRC, Jennifer Rush isn’t a rock or pop artist…her background is _opera._ ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/51 "2017-11-28T14:36:30Z")
I picked Jennifer Rush as when that was a hit I was working in a bar and part of my duties was polishing the bar and surrounds every morning. They always had the radio on and this song was on non-stop it seemed. Burnt into my brain. Love the Frankie song though. One of my favourite xmas songs. It was released in the UK at xmas and was a xmas number one. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743/52 "2017-11-29T19:30:33Z")
Frankie, Huey and Jennifer. All three songs were big hits in the days in Germany and are still played on some radio stations. ETA: don’t know Celine Dion’s version and don’t want to, shudder (in fact I don’t want to hear ANY Celine Dion song for the rest of my life ever, it that’s possible). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-power-of-love/802743.md?page=2)