"Still" is a 1979 song by the

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group the

Commodores Commodores are an American funk and soul band, which were at their peak in the late 1970s through the mid 1980s. The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1968, and signed with Motown in ...

. It was released as a single on

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with "Such a Woman" as the B-side. The song appears on their 1979 hit album '' Midnight Magic''. It is notable for being their last No. 1 before

Lionel Richie Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and television personality. He rose to fame in the 1970s as a songwriter and the co-lead singer of funk band the Commodores; writing and recor ...

went solo. '' Cash Box'' said it was a "tender, lilting

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" with "a soft, building piano figure" and "expressive, plaintive lead vocal." ''

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'' praised the " poignant lyric and slow, romantic melodyline."

Chart history

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

All-time charts

Cover versions

In 1981, actor-singer John Schneider took a

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to No. 69 on the pop chart. It was the

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to his country single "Them Good Ol' Boys Are Bad", which reached No. 13 on the country chart. The song was covered in a

Cantonese Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding ar ...

version by Hong Kong singer Alan Tam as "My Heart Is Only You"（我的心只有你）.

References

External links

List of cover versions of "Still"
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