"Make Love Stay" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg, and released as a single in January 1983. It was one of two new songs included on his 1982 greatest hits album, along with the song "Missing You".

"Make Love Stay"
Single by Dan Fogelberg
from the album Greatest Hits
B-side"Hearts and Crafts"
ReleasedJanuary 1983
Recorded1982
GenrePop, adult contemporary
Length4:32
LabelFull Moon Records
Songwriter(s)Dan Fogelberg
Producer(s)Dan Fogelberg, Marty Lewis
Dan Fogelberg singles chronology
"Missing You"
(1982)
"Make Love Stay"
(1983)
"The Language of Love"
(1984)

Fogelberg later described "Make Love Stay" in the liner notes to a retrospective album as a "sinuous piece written around a chapter of Tom Robbins' Still Life with Woodpecker" and as "a musical question that, unfortunately, eludes me still."[1]

"Make Love Stay" peaked at No. 29 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in March 1983.[1] It was Fogelberg's third song to top the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, following his earlier hits "Longer" and "Leader of the Band".[1]

Chart performance

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Chart (1983) Peak
position
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary 1
US Billboard Adult Contemporary[2] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[3] 29

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of No. 1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 89.
  3. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990ISBN 0-89820-089-X
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