Phil Collins | SOLID GOLD | “You Can’t Hurry Love” (2/14/1986) - Intro by Dionne Warwick

This is from Season 6 of Paramount's hit 80s TV series, "SOLID GOLD", for which I, Michael Miller, was the Musical Director and Theme Composer. Introduced by our host, DIONNE WARWICK, enjoy PHIL COLLINS singing his first solo hit “You Can’t Hurry Love“. This was released in 1982 while Phil was the lead singer of Genesis, after taking over for the incredible Peter Gabriel in 1975. This episode aired on February 14, 1986, though this performance of Phil’s was originally taped for our episode that aired on January 22, 1983.

[@Broadwayriah]

Phil Collins is a massively underrated singer. I love this song and Against All Odds

[@user-fu2sl9nw9p]

Better than ever.I’m glad this song was born.He has honest and timeless advice to this day.Phil’s unique voice is recognizable from other singers./I was there at one of his concerts./Thank you for your effort in producing and sharing.

[@jasonburger3533]

Phil Collins introduced a new generation to "You Can't Hurry Love", which had been previously popularized by The Supremes during the 1960s, led by Diana Ross. Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel were both great in their separate eras with the band Genesis and both became very popular solo artists during the 1980s. Phil Collins became known as mainly a popular balladeer, as this song exemplifies. He did a great performance in this 1983 performance rebroadcast in 1986. By 1986, he had two major movie themes that had soared up the charts, "Against All Odds", from the movie of the same name, which had been wonderfully covered by Dionne Warwick during the 1985-1986 "Solid Gold" season and the duet, "Separate Lives", from the movie "White Nights", the power ballad authored by Stephen Bishop and sung by him, but popularized by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin as a duet.
In the same 1985-1986 season of "Solid Gold", "Separate Ways" had two wonderful versions that had included host Dionne Warwick, a solo version that was/is excellent and a duet version with Stephen Bishop that are, both Dionne versions, as good as or better than the originals.
It would have been an interesting musical performance had Dionne Warwick sung a duet, at least on "Solid Gold", with Dionne Warwick. The 1980s were a golden era in popular music that had a little bit of everything across all musical genres that had individuality, something that seems much less common in the current popular music environment. Thanks, Michael, for this relatively early look at Phil Collins on the cusp of becoming a solo superstar.

[@bigeyezzzzzzz]

Thanks for this, though you might want to double check the first sentence of your last paragraph!

[@jasonburger3533]

​@@bigeyezzzzzzzYes, that is a doozy of a mistake of mine. I guess that I should not write comments while tired and using an over 6-year-old smartphone whose pop-up keyboard sometimes sticks. "Dionne Warwick singing a duet with Dionne Warwick" is the mistake. Although she often, especially on "Solid Gold", sang songs that were made famous as duets and sang them as solos, so I might have had that thought in the back of my mind. However, "You Can't Hurry Love" is a solo in the Phil Collins version and, to my knowledge, has not ever been done as a duet, at least formally. I had meant to write that it might have been something special had Dionne Warwick performed a duet with Phil Collins on "Solid Gold". She had performed his song "Against All Odds" during that same 1985-1986 season. Anyway, point taken. I stand and sit corrected. Thank you for that. Thank you for the background on the history of the performance by Phil Collins in that it had originally aired on January 22, 1983 and had then been reaired as part of the theme of love for the airdate of February 14, 1986, on the occasion of Valentine's Day 1986. It made for a very good performance on both occasions and it is amazing how Phil Collins had added so many hits between 1983 and 1986, especially the movie themes from "Against All Odds" and "Separate Lives", his duet with Marilyn Martin that had been composed and sung by Stephen Bishop and during the 1985-1986 season, performed both as a solo by Dionne Warwick and as a duet by Dionne Warwick and Stephen Bishop. It was actually those performances that turned me on to "Separate Lives" and the movie soundtrack version by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin. As for "You Can't Hurry Love", Phil Collins did a great job performing it from the male angle compared to the female angle that was presented by Diana Ross And The Supremes during the 1960s. Both versions are wonderful examples of the ability to apply music that is well-composed and well-written and sung well to two different distinct eras in the history of American popular music, the 1960s and the 1980s, and for it to be contemporary in both eras all the way to the present.🙂