"Is It Love You're After?" is a 1979 song by

Rose Royce Rose Royce is an American soul and R&B group. They are best known for several hit singles during the 1970s including " Car Wash", " I Wanna Get Next to You", " I'm Going Down", " Wishing on a Star", and " Love Don't Live Here Anymore". Career ...

from the 1979 album ''

Rainbow Connection IV ''Rainbow Connection IV'' is the fourth album by the funk band Rose Royce, released on the Whitfield label in 1979. It was produced by Norman Whitfield. This would be the last album to include lead singer Gwen Dickey before she left the group ...

'', which was the last album with lead singer Gwen Dickey before she left to embark on a solo career. It was also the band's fourth highest-charting single in the UK.

Chart performance

Personnel

* Gwen Dickey – lead vocals * Kenny Copeland – trumpet * Kenji Brown – guitar * Lequeint "Duke" Jobe – bass * Michael Nash – keyboards * Henry Garner – drums * Freddie Dunn – trumpet * Michael Moore – saxophone * Terry Santiel – congas

Samples

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riff of the song was sampled for

S'Express S'Express (pronounced ''ess-express''; sometimes spelled S'Xpress or S-Express) was a British dance music act from the late 1980s, who had one of the earliest commercial successes in the acid house genre. " Theme from S'Express", which contain ...

' 1988 song "

Theme From S'Express "Theme from S-Express" is an acid house song by British electronic dance music group S'Express, from their debut studio album, ''Original Soundtrack'' (1989), written and produced by Mark Moore and Pascal Gabriel. One of the landmarks of early ac ...

," which reached no. 1 in the UK.

References

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