Real Love (1985 song)

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“Real Love”
Single by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers
from the album Real Love
Released 1985 (U.S.)
Genre Country
Writer(s) David Malloy, Richard "Spady" Brannon and Randy McCormick
Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers singles chronology
"Islands in the Stream" (1983) "Real Love"
(1985)
"Love is Strange"
(1990)

"Real Love" was a 1985 single by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers that topped the U.S. country singles charts in August 1985. The song, written by David Malloy, Richard "Spady" Brannon and Randy McCormick, was the title single of Parton's Real Love album. Released as Real Love's second single, after the top-ten success of "Don't Call it Love", the song became Parton and Rogers' second country chart-topper. However, "Real Love" did not fare as well on the pop singles charts as 1983's "Islands in the Stream" had done, stalling at number 91 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 13 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Parton and Rogers embarked on a nine-city U.S. concert tour in February 1985, from which an HBO concert special, "Real Love" was filmed; a music video for the "Real Love" single was produced using footage from the HBO special.

Preceded by
"Highwayman"
by The Highwaymen
Billboard Hot Country Singles
number one single
by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers

August 24, 1985
Succeeded by
"Love Is Alive"
by The Judds

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