January 21, 2025

Luther Vandross - One Night With You: The Best Of Love, Volume 2 (1997)

One Night with You: The Best of Love, Volume 2 (issued internationally without 'Volume 2') is the third compilation album released by American singer Luther Vandross, released on September 15, 1997, by Epic Records
It is his second compilation album to be released stateside, and is a continuation of his triple-platinum selling first compilation The Best of Luther Vandross... The Best of Love (1989). One Night with You contains four newly recorded songs including the R. Kelly-penned and Grammy-nominated "When You Call on Me/Baby That's When I Come Runnin'" and selections compiled from his later studio albums such as Songs (1994), This Is Christmas (1995), Never Let Me Go (1993), Power of Love (1991) and Your Secret Love (1996).

The album also contains his then-biggest pop hits such as "Power of Love/Love Power", an alternate club mix of "The Best Things in Life Are Free" (a duet with Janet Jackson from the Mo' Money soundtrack) and a cover of the Lionel Richie/Diana Ross recording "Endless Love" with Mariah Carey, which became his biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100 peaking at number two. 
The album was moderately successful, reaching the top 50 of the Billboard 200 album chart and peaking inside the top 20 within the R&B Albums chart. One Night with You was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2021.

One Night with You picked up where Luther Vandross' first hits collection left off, including the R&B/pop Top Ten hits "Power of Love/Love Power," "Don't Want to Be a Fool," "The Best Things in Life Are Free," and "Endless Love," as well as the R&B Top Ten hits "Little Miracles" and "Your Secret Love." 
Also included was the Grammy-winning "Love the One You're With." Fans may have found the omission of some R&B hits in favor of Vandross' interpretation of Rodgers & Hammerstein's "My Favorite Things" questionable, and the four new songs, despite boasting the hot songwriting pens of Diane Warren, R. Kelly, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, did not generate any new hits of the kind that propelled Vandross' first hits album to triple-platinum status. 
Indeed, this second set was a sales disappointment. Maybe Vandross' fans already had these songs on the original albums. 
More likely, the album marked the end of his sometimes stormy relationship with Epic, and the company didn't push it.


Tracklist

1.  One Night With You (Everyday Of Your Life)   (Diane Warren) - 4:25
2.  When You Call On Me / Baby That's When I Come Runnin'   (R. Kelly) - 4:42
3.  It's All About You   (Ralph B. Stacy, Ron Neal & Dennis Bettis) - 5:29
4.  I Won't Let You Do That To Me   (Jimmy Harris III, Terry Lewis & James Wright) - 4:34
5.  Power Of Love / Love Power   (Luther Vandross, Marcus Miller & Teddy Vann) - 6:42
6.  Don't Want To Be A Fool  (Luther Vandross & Marcus Miller) - 4:36
7.  The Best Things In Life Are Free (Classic Club Edit)   (Jimmy Harris III, Terry Lewis, Ronnie DeVoe & Michael Bivins) - 4:03
8.  Little Miracles (Happen Every Day)   (Luther Vandross & Marcus Miller) - 4:43
9.  Endless Love   (Lionel Richie) - 4:20
10.  Always And Forever   (Rod Temperton) - 4:54
11.  Love The One You're With   (Stephen Stills) - 5:04
12.  Your Secret Love   (Luther Vandross & Reed Vertelney) - 4:12
13.  I Can Make It Better   (Luther Vandross & Marcus Miller) - 5:36
14.  Love Don't Love You Anymore (TM's Urban Mix)   (Luther Vandross) - 4:09
15.  My Favorite Things   (Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) - 5:56


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Credits

Notes
Released: September 17, 1997 
Recorded: 1991–1997 
Genre: R&B, soul, pop, adult contemporary 
Producer(s): Luther Vandross, Nat Adderley Jr., Walter Afanasieff, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, R. Kelly, Marcus Miller, David Morales, Tony Moran, Ralph Stacy, Keith Thomas, Jim Wright
Length: 73:25

Label - Epic

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