"Love Sneakin' Up On You" is a song by American

blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...

singer

Bonnie Raitt Bonnie Lynn Raitt (; born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer and guitarist. In 1971, Raitt released her self-titled debut album. Following this, she released a series of critically acclaimed roots-influenced albums that incorporated ...

. Released in March 1994 from her 12th album, ''

Longing in Their Hearts ''Longing in Their Hearts'' is the twelfth album by Bonnie Raitt, released in 1994. The album contained the mainstream pop hit, "Love Sneakin' Up On You," which reached #19 on the Billboard singles chart, and "You", which remains to date her onl ...

'' (1994), the song topped Canada's ''

RPM Revolutions per minute (abbreviated rpm, RPM, rev/min, r/min, or with the notation min−1) is a unit of rotational speed or rotational frequency for rotating machines. Standards ISO 80000-3:2019 defines a unit of rotation as the dimensionl ...

'' 100 Hit Tracks chart for three weeks and reached number 19 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The song also charted in Germany and the United Kingdom. In 1995, it was nominated for both the

Grammy Award for Record of the Year The Grammy Award for Record of the Year is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without reg ...

and the

Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance The Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to female recording artists for works (songs or albums) conta ...

Meiert Avis Meiert Avis is an Irish music video and commercial director. Avis has directed videos for artists such as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Avril Lavigne, Paramore, Alanis Morissette, Flyleaf, Jennifer Lopez, New Found Glory and Josh Groban, ...

directed the song's music video.

Critical reception

Ron Fell and Diane Rufer from the ''

Gavin Report The ''Gavin Report'' was a San Francisco-based radio industry trade publication. The publication was founded by radio performer Bill Gavin in 1958. Its Top 40 listings were used for many years by programmers to decide content of programs. The pu ...

'' wrote, "Bonnie gets up and down with this funky preface to her next album, ''Longing In Their Hearts''. How great it is to have a beat-driven fresh track from one of our format's icons."

Track listings

US 7-inch and cassette single :A. "Love Sneakin' Up On You" – 3:39 :B. "Hell to Pay" – 4:02 European CD single # "Love Sneakin' Up On You" – 3:39 # " Nick of Time" – 3:52 # " Baby Mine" – 3:14 # "Hell to Pay" – 4:02

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

References

{{Authority control 1994 singles 1994 songs Bonnie Raitt songs Capitol Records singles EMI Records singles Music videos directed by Meiert Avis RPM Top Singles number-one singles Song recordings produced by Don Was Songs written by Tom Snow