SADE - SMOOTH OPERATER

SMOOTH OPERATOR

SADE ADU

SONGWRITERS: ANTONIO HARDY; CLYDE OTIS; MURRAY STEIN & SADE ADU

WHERE: MONTREAUX 1984

COUNTRY: NIGÉRIA

ALBUM: FALL/SINGLE

LABEL: HKN MUSIC RECORD

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2017

"Smooth Operator" is a song by English band Sade from their debut studio album Diamond Life (1984). It was released as the third single from Diamond Life in the United Kingdom as a 7-inch single with "Spirit" as its B-side, and as a 12-inch maxi single with "Smooth Operator" and "Red Eye" on side A and "Spirit" on side B. The song is also more or less the album's title track as the title comes from the first sung line in the song following a spoken introduction.

"Smooth Operator" became Sade's first Top Ten hit in the US, peaking at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks in May 1985. The song spent 13 weeks in the Top 40, and also topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart for two weeks. Although "Your Love Is King" remains Sade's biggest hit in the UK to date, "Smooth Operator" is the band's breakthrough hit on the US charts, and their most successful single internationally.

Helen Folasade Adu CBE (Yoruba: Fọláṣadé Adú [fɔ̄láʃādé ādú]; born 16 January 1959), known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade(/ʃɑːˈdeɪ/shah-DAY), is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the English band Sade.

Born in Ibadan, Sade gained modest recognition as a fashion designer and part-time model, prior to joining the band Pride in the early 1980s. After gaining notoriety as a performer, she formed the band Sade, and secured a recording contract with Epic Records in 1983. The band then released the álbum Diamond Life a year later, which became one of the best selling albums of the era, and the best-selling debut ever by a British female vocalist. It also gained widespread critical acclaim, and is largely considered one of the best albums of all-time.

Diamond life lover boy

We move in space with minimum waste

And maximum joy

City lights and business nights

When you require streetcar desire

For higher heights

No place for beginners or sensitive hearts

When sentiment is left to chance

No place to be ending but somewhere to start

No need to ask

He's a smooth operator

Smooth operator

Smooth operator

Smooth operator

Coast to coast, L.A. to Chicago, western male

Across the north and south to key largo, love for sale

Face to face, each classic case

We shadow box and double cross

Yet need the chase

A license to love, insurance to hold

Melts all your memories and change into gold

His eyes are like angels but his heart is cold

No need to ask

He's a smooth operator

Smooth operator

Smooth operator

Smooth operator

Coast to coast, L.A. to Chicago, western male

Across the north and south, to Key Largo, love for sale

Smooth operator

Smooth operator

Smooth operator

Smooth operator

Smooth operator.