Right Back Where We Started From

Album: Right Back Where We Started From (1975)
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  • Ooh, and it's alright and it's comin' on
    We gotta get right back to where we started from
    Love is good, love can be strong
    We gotta get right back to where started from (ah-ah)

    Do you remember that day (that sunny day)
    When you first came my way
    I said no one could take your place
    And if you get hurt (if you get hurt)
    By the little things I say
    I can put that smile back on your face

    Ooh, and it's alright and it's comin' on
    We gotta get right back to where we started from
    Love is good, love can be strong
    We gotta get right back to where started from (ah-oh, ah-ha)
    (Mm-mm-hoo-hoo)

    A love like ours (a love like ours)
    Can never fade away
    You know it's only just begun
    You give me your love (give me your love)
    I just can't stay away, no, no
    I know you are the only one

    Ooh, and it's alright and it's comin' on
    We gotta get right back to where we started from
    Love is good, love can be strong
    We gotta get right back to where started from (ah-oh)

    (Ooh, ooh, ooh)

    You give me your love (give me your love)
    I just can't stay away, no
    I know you are the only one

    Ooh, and it's alright and it's comin' on
    We gotta get right back to where we started from
    Love is good, love can be strong
    We gotta get right back to where started from
    It's alright and it's comin' on
    We gotta get right back to where we started from
    Love is good, love can be strong
    We gotta get right back to where started from
    Alright and it's comin' on
    We gotta get right back to where we started from
    Love is good, love can be strong
    We gotta get right back to where started from Writer/s: Pierre Tubbs, Vincent J. Edwards
    Publisher: MOTHERSHIP MUSIC PUBLISHING, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

  • Jack from MinnesotaThis was used frequently as bumper music on Art Bell's overnight show back in the in the 90s. I don't think I would have heard it otherwise. I finally found it again after many years and am hoping some of her other music is as good (or even nearly so).
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn July 17th 1976, Maxine Nightingale performed "Right Back Where We Started From" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time of this appearance on 'Bandstand' her next charted record, "Gotta Be The One", was at position #78 on the Top 100, it would stay on the chart for 8 weeks, peaking at #53.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 7th, 1976, "Right Back Where We Started From" by Maxine Nightingale entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at #95; and on April 25th it peaked at #2 (for 2 weeks) and spent 20 weeks on the Top 100 (and for 8 of those 20 weeks it was on the Top 10)...
    The first week it was at #2 on the Top 100 the #1 record was "Let Your Love Flow" by the Bellamy Brothers; and for its 2nd week the #1 record was "Welcome Back" by John Sebastian...
    Sinitta, born Sinitta Renay Malone, covered it in 1989; and her version reached #4 in the U.K. and peaked at #84 in her native U.S.A.
    Ms. Nightingale celebrated her 62nd birthday three months ago on November 2nd (2013).
  • Brian from Wilmington, DeThis song is used extensivley in the film Slap Shot with Paul Newman.
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