Love and Kisses (Dannii Minogue song)

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"Love and Kisses"

Single by Dannii Minogue
from the album Love and Kisses
Released	February 1990 (Australia) March 18, 1991 (UK) April 1991 (Japan)
Format	CD single: Australia Vinyl single: Worldwide Cassette single: Australia
Recorded	New York City, United States
Genre	Pop–dance
Length	3:45
Label	MCA Universal Records Mushroom Records
Writer(s)	Alvin Moody
Producer(s)	Dancin' Danny D
Certification	Gold (Australia)
Chart positions
#4 (Australia) #8 (UK)
Dannii Minogue Australian singles chronology
	"Love and Kisses" (1990)	"Success" (1990)
Dannii Minogue European singles chronology
	"Love and Kisses" (1991)	"Success" (1991)

"Love and Kisses" is a pop–dance song written by Alvin Moody for Dannii Minogue's debut album Dannii (1990). The song was produced by Dancin' Danny D and received a mixed reception from music critics. It was released as Minogue's debut single in the first quarter of 1990 in Australia and reached number four, remaining on the singles chart for fifteen weeks, and was certified gold for sales of 60,000 copies.^[1] The following year, "Love and Kisses" was released worldwide on March 18, 1991 and reached number eight in the United Kingdom.

1 Recording and release
2 Music video
3 Formats and track listings
4 Chart performance
- 4.1 Charts
5 Notes
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Recording and release

In January 1989, Minogue signed a recording contract with Australian-based record label Mushroom Records. Seven months later, while on break from her television work, she flew to New York City to begin recording her debut album with producers Alvin Moody and Vincent Bell. Highly influenced by American R&B music, Minogue chose to record the Moody penned "Love and Kisses" as it did not sound like any other pop songs being released in Australia at the time.

The following year the song was released as Minogue's debut single in Australia. The song's chart success led to record deals outside of Australia and Minogue was invited to promote the single for three weeks in the United Kingdom and then in Japan. The song was remixed for both markets. Its success on the charts outside of Australia resulted in the recording of additional songs for a full length album release and launched Minogue's recording career outside of her homeland.

[edit] Music video

"Love and Kisses" featured a music video that was directed by Paul Goldman and Craig Griffin and filmed in Australia in early 1990. Two slightly different versions of the video were produced, but with little differences. The highly choreographed video is plot less and features a brunette, leather clad Minogue dancing in front of a white background with a group of dancers. The video begins with close up images of Minogue, before showing Minogue and her backup dancers dancing in front of a changing background. Intercut with the dance scenes are close-up, black and white images of Minogue singing by herself.

Kelly Abbey, one of the dancers in the video, later worked with Minogue eight years later on Grease: The Arena Spectacular stage show in Australia.

[edit] Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Love and Kisses".

Australian CD single

"Love and Kisses" (7" mix)
"Work"
"Love and Kisses" (Hectic remix)
"Love and Kisses" (House remix)

UK CD Single

"Love and Kisses"
"Love and Kisses" (Instrumental)
"Love and Kisses" (Accapella)

European vinyl single

"Love and Kisses" (7" mix)
"Love and Kisses" (Instrumental)
"Love and Kisses" (Acapella)

Australian Cassette single

"Love and Kisses" (7" mix)
"Work"

[edit] Chart performance

In February 1990, "Love and Kisses" was released in Australia. The song became Minogue's first top ten single when it debuted at number forty on the singles chart before peaking at number four six weeks later. It spent a total of fifteen weeks on the chart and was certified gold for sales of 60,000 copies three months after its release.

Outside of Australia, the song was released as a single the following year. In the United Kingdom, "Love and Kisses" debuted at number thirty-three on the singles chart, before climbing the chart to number eight four weeks later. Spending eight weeks in the top seventy-five, the song has become one of Minogue's most successful single releases in the UK. At the end of 1991, the song became the ninety-ninth best-selling single of the year.

[edit] Charts

Chart (1990)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart	4
New Zealand Singles Chart	15
Chart (1991)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	8
Japanese Singles Chart	14
Irish Singles Chart	22

[edit] Notes

^ DanniiMusic.com "Chronology". Retrieved May 16, 2006.

[edit] References

Danni.com. Recording and music video information. Retrieved on July 5, 2006.
DanniMusic.com. Comprehensive listing of all Dannii Minogue releases, including commercial and promo items. Retrieved on July 5, 2006.
Dannii Minogue, The Hits & Beyond (2006) CD/DVD booklet.