At Your Best (You Are Love)

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"At Your Best (You Are Love)"

Single by The Isley Brothers
Released	1976
Recorded	1975-1976
Genre	R&B
Writer(s)	Isley Brothers & Chris Jasper

At Your Best (You Are Love) was originally a radio hit by The Isley Brothers in 1976.

Ronald Isley: lead and background vocals
O'Kelly Isley, Jr. and Rudolph Isley: background vocals
Ernie Isley: guitar, drums
Marvin Isley: bass
Chris Jasper: piano, keyboards, synthesizers
Produced, written, composed and arranged by The Isley Brothers and Chris Jasper

1 Aaliyah Version
2 Other Revival

[edit] Aaliyah Version

"At Your Best (You Are Love)"

Single by Aaliyah
from the album Age Ain't Nothing But A Number
Released	1994
Format	CD
Recorded	1993-1994
Genre	R&B
Length	4:52 (original version) 4:30 (remix version)
Label	Blackground/Jive Records
Writer(s)	Isley Brothers & Chris Jasper
Producer(s)	R. Kelly
Chart positions
#2 ( US R&B) #6 ( US) #27 ( UK) #30 (Ireland) #56 (Australia)
Aaliyah singles chronology
" Back & Forth" (1994)	"At Your Best (You Are Love)" (1994)	" Age Ain't Nothing But A Number" (1994)
Age Ain't Nothing but a Number track listing
"Down With The Clique" (5)	"At Your Best (You Are Love)" (6)	"No One Knows How To Love Me Quite Like You Do" (7)

Eighteen years later, the song was revived by teen singer Aaliyah, and became a charted hit reaching number six on the pop singles chart and number two on the R&B singles chart though reaching number twenty-seven in the UK pop charts. In of all the artists who covered the song, her version was the most successful.

[edit] Remix

The song became a hit based on a remix version Aaliyah cut with R. Kelly featured on the song chanting this is for the steppers and earlier saying, 1-2, checker, baby, lemme know what's up before Aaliyah began singing.

[edit] Credits

Aaliyah: lead and background vocals
R. Kelly: multi-instrumentation
Produced by R. Kelly

[edit] Track listing

"At Your Best (You Are Love)" (LP Mix) – 4:43
"At Your Best (You Are Love)" (Gangsta Child Remix) – 4:30
"At Your Best (You Are Love)" (Stepper's Ball Remix) – 3:05
"Back & Forth" (Ms. Mello Remix) – 3:50

Source: Aaliyah-Forever.de

[edit] Chart

It became another Aaliyah successful hit.Peaking number six on Billboard Hot 100, number four in ARC Weekly Top 40 for two weeks and number two on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.It was unsuccessful outside the US, peaking number twenty-seven on UK Singles Chart, number fifty-six on ARIA Australia and number thirty on Irish Singles Chart.