"1983 songs" . "Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one singles" . "2008-08-11"^^ . "1984 singles" . "true"^^ . "true"^^ . "2"^^ . "Songs written by Lionel Richie" . "english" . "-0.053811"^^ . "953468" . . "Lionel Richie songs" . "%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" . . . . "false"^^ . "-0.0436348"^^ . "1984-09-30"^^ . "3445" . "12"^^ . . "407034"^^ . . "5714ded925ac0d8aee48cde4" . "100.0"^^ . "Music videos directed by Bob Giraldi" . "c67761ad-cab4-4922-9970-e4bbcf05b744" . "-14.3"^^ . . "Motown" . "TRUODVA128F93263E7" . . "USMO18390014" . "Motown singles" . "Penny Lover" . "225000.0"^^ . . "Penny Lover" . . "Lionel Richie" . "1983" . . "Lionel Richie" . .