"With whom did Lionel Ritchie duet on the 1981 hit ""Endless Love""?"
Endless Love (1981 film) hospitals for several years, during which time Jade marries and moves to Europe and David has sexual relationships with several other women. At the end of the novel, it is 1977 and David is released and living with an unnamed woman while Jade remains married and in Europe. The film's theme song, written by Lionel Richie and performed by Richie and Diana Ross and also called "Endless Love", became a #1 hit on the "Billboard" Hot 100, and was the biggest-selling single in Ross' career. Billboard magazine chose it as "The Best Duet of All Time" in 2011, 30 years
Endless Love: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack shortly thereafter she signed a then recordbreaking $20 million deal with RCA Records. Her first album for her new label, the self-produced "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", released the same year, included a solo version of "Endless Love". The "Endless Love" soundtrack also included a second duet with Ross and Richie, "Dreaming of You", and both songs were also included as orchestral versions alongside Jonathan Tunick's original score. While Ross' appearance on the "Endless Love" soundtrack marked the end of an era as she left Motown after twenty years on the label, Lionel Richie's work for the album instead