Love Overboard

{{Infobox song | name = Love Overboard | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = [[Gladys Knight & the Pips]] | album = [[All Our Love]] | released = November 1987 | recorded = 1987 | studio = | venue = | genre = [[Contemporary R&B|R&B]], [[dance-pop]] | length = 5:26 | label = [[MCA Records|MCA]] | writer = [[Reggie Calloway]] | producer = [[Reggie Calloway]] & Vincent Calloway for Calloco, Inc. | prev_title = Come Back and Finish What You Started | prev_year = 1978 | next_title = | next_year = }}

"'''Love Overboard'''" is a [[Grammy Award]]-winning 1987 single by [[Gladys Knight & the Pips]].

==Chart performance== "Love Overboard" was the group's last of ten #1 hits on the [[Hot Black Singles]] chart. It crossed over to #13 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] chart as well.<ref>{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=331}}</ref> The single was also successful on the dance charts, peaking at #4.<ref>{{cite book |title= Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=147}}</ref> It also peaked at #59 on the [[Canada RPM Top 100 Singles]] chart.

==Popular culture== *Knight performs the song in a dream sequence on the episode "[[Three Girls Three]]" of ''[[A Different World (TV series)|A Different World]]'', with Whitley and Jaleesa singing background for her (instead of the Pips).

==Charts== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- !Chart (1987) ! style="text-align:center;" |Peak<br />position |- |Canada Top Singles ''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'' | style="text-align:center;"|59 |- |{{singlechart|Billboardhot100|13|artist=Gladys Knight and The Pips}} |- |{{singlechart|Billboardrandbhiphop|1|artist=Gladys Knight and The Pips}} |- | {{single chart|Billboarddanceclubplay|4|artist=Gladys Knight and The Pips}} |}

==References== {{reflist}}

[[Category:1987 songs]] [[Category:1987 singles]] [[Category:Gladys Knight & the Pips songs]] [[Category:MCA Records singles]] [[Category:Songs written by Reggie Calloway]]