abstract
| - %22Penny Lover%22 is the title of the fifth and final single released from Lionel Richie's multi-platinum and Grammy Award-winning 1983 album, Can't Slow Down. The song was written by Richie and his then-wife, Brenda Harvey Richie.As with all the other singles taken from Can't Slow Down (%22All Night Long (All Night)%22, %22Running with the Night%22, %22Hello%22 and %22Stuck on You%22), %22Penny Lover%22 was a top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, spending two weeks at #8 in December 1984. The song reached an identical #8 peak position on the Billboard R&B chart, while on the Billboard adult contemporary chart, the song logged four weeks at #1. On the UK Singles Chart, the song reached #18.In a song review printed in Billboard by an anonymous writer in 1984, %22Penny Lover%22 was described as %22another of his unfailingly effective universal-appeal ballads.%22
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