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.
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