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An Entity of Type : wsb:Classic_Song, within Data Space : wasabi.inria.fr associated with source document(s)

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  • What A Fool Believes
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  • Gramophone record
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  • eng
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  • 1978 songs
  • 1979 singles
  • Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles
  • Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
  • Grammy Award for Song of the Year
  • Grammy Award for Record of the Year
  • Soft rock songs
  • Vocal duets
  • Warner Bros. Records singles
  • Song recordings produced by Ted Templeman
  • Kenny Loggins songs
  • Songs written by Kenny Loggins
  • Songs written by Michael McDonald (singer)
  • The Doobie Brothers songs
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  • %22What a Fool Believes%22 is a song written by Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins. The best-known version was recorded by The Doobie Brothers (with McDonald singing lead vocals) for their 1978 album Minute by Minute. Bowing at #73 on 20 January 1979, the single reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on 14 April 1979 for one week. The song received Grammy Awards in 1980 for both Song of the Year and Record of the Year.%22What a Fool Believes%22 was one of the few non-disco No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 during 1979. The song lyrics tell a story of a man who is reunited with an old love interest and attempts to rekindle a romantic relationship with her before discovering that one never really existed.Michael McDonald reputedly fired the whole band along with the stage manager after a 1979 Chicago show in which a backup singer hit a flat note on the second chorus for this hit. In an interview later in the year with Rolling Stone, McDonald revealed he %22couldn't abide such mistakes. I was running a band, not a circus.%22Michael Jackson once claimed he contributed at least one backing track to the original Doobie Brothers recording, but was not credited for having done so. This was later denied by the band.
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  • Kenny Loggins
  • Michael McDonald (singer)
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  • USSM17801068
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  • Ted Templeman
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  • 3855
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  • 13228455
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  • english
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  • Warner Bros. Records
  • East West Records
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  • August 1978
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  • What A Fool Believes
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