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Soon after Foreigner's single topped the charts, the New Jersey Mass Choir released its own similar-sounding version of the song on an album also titled I Want to Know What Love Is. The choir's single peaked at number 37 on the then- Hot Black Singles chart and number 12 on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart.
By the time of Agent Provocateur, Foreigner was frequently savaged by the contemporary rock music press. A review in Creem read: "On this, their latest excursion into the gaping jaws of pulverizing mediocrity, our boys continue to wrestle with an all-too-turgid identity crisis — they still can't decide whether it's stupider to aspire to poor man's Led Zep status or settle for being a ...
Among the 47 singles released by the band, 14 of them became top 20 hits in the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including the number-one song "I Want to Know What Love Is" and the number-two "Waiting for a Girl Like You", which spent a record-setting 10 weeks at the number 2 position of the chart without ever reaching the top.
Foreigner's next album, Agent Provocateur, co-produced by Alex Sadkin, was released in December 1984 and, in 1985, gave them their first and only No. 1 hit song in the US and several other countries (except for Canada, where "Urgent" had reached No. 1) when "I Want to Know What Love Is", a ballad backed by Jennifer Holliday and the New Jersey ...
In 1996, Jones invited Gramm to perform backing vocals on a cover version of "I Want to Know What Love Is" he was producing for the Australian singer Tina Arena. The song went on to become a major hit again throughout Europe. [citation needed] In 1997, Gramm provided vocals for Christian rock band Petra's album entitled Petra Praise 2: We Need ...
Introduction of Foreigner; Foreigner "Hot Blooded" "Juke Box Hero" "Urgent" "I Want To Know What Love Is" Iron Butterfly "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" Laura Branigan "Gloria" Stephen Stills. Introduction of Ben E. King; Ben E. King "Spanish Harlem" "There Goes My Baby" "Save the Last Dance for Me" Roberta Flack "Killing Me Softly with His Song" Roberta ...