I Want to Know What Love Is

~ Recording by Foreigner

Annotation

USAT29900662 is 1999 remaster

Annotation last modified on 2020-07-07 10:09 UTC.

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
1.11	I Want to Know What Love Is	4:58	Foreigner	Golden Dreams	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1993	Warner Special Products, Starland Music	OPCD-4546
1.3	I Want to Know What Love Is	5:05	Foreigner	Agent Provocateur	Foreigner	Album	DE1996-01-26	Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)	7567-82796-2
2.3	I Want to Know What Love Is	5:01	Foreigner	Singers and Songwriters: 1979-1989	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2001	Warner Special Products, Time–Life Music	OPCD-2807, R812-13
1.13	I Want to Know What Love Is (remastered)	5:04	Foreigner	The 80s, Part 2	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	IE2014-07-11 GB2014-07-11	Sony Music CG
4.12	I Want to Know What Love Is	5:00	Foreigner	The Best of Soft Rock	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2019	Time–Life Music	33491-D

additional engineer:	Josh Abbey Larry Alexander (producer/engineer) Jason Corsaro (U.S. music engineer, and record producer) Joe Ferla Howie Lindeman
assistant engineer:	Bobby Cohen (engineer) Tim Crich Scott “Abada” Mabuchi
engineer:	Frank Filipetti
producer:	Mick Jones (Foreigner/Spooky Tooth, worked in France) Alex Sadkin
additional keyboard:	Tom Bailey (Thompson Twins)
bass guitar:	Rick Wills
drums (drum set):	Dennis Elliott
electric guitar:	Mick Jones (Foreigner/Spooky Tooth, worked in France)
additional vocals:	Jennifer Holliday
background vocals:	Donnie Harper Mick Jones (Foreigner/Spooky Tooth, worked in France) Rick Wills
choir vocals:	The New Jersey Mass Choir
lead vocals:	Lou Gramm (American rock singer-songwriter; Black Sheep, Foreigner & Shadow King)

phonographic copyright (℗) by:

Atlantic Recording Corporation (not for release label use! copyrights holder, distributor within the US) (in 1984)
Warner Music International (trademark of Warner Music International the company) (in 1984)
WEA International Inc. (not for release label use! copyrights holder, distributor for the world outside of the US) (in 1984, in 2018)
Rhino Entertainment Company (not for release label use!) (in 2009)

additionally recorded at:	Right Track Recording in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States
recorded at:	The Hit Factory in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States
mixed at:	Right Track Recording in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States

sampled by:	Camaro by New Dreams Ltd. In My Life by Memphis Bleek

part of:	VH1: 100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s (compiled in 2006) (number: 65) (order: 65) Billboard: The 500 Best Pop Songs (as of October 2023) (number: 205) (order: 205) Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 476) (order: 479)

stream for free:	https://open.spotify.com/track/4ShWZx38HfDblPUGA4qxBP [info] https://open.spotify.com/track/5GjRDJ1Fwx9AiwAXgMTRWo [info]
streaming page:	https://tidal.com/track/308726343 [info]

recording of:	I Want to Know What Love Is

lyricist and composer:	Mick Jones (Foreigner/Spooky Tooth, worked in France)

publisher:	Evansongs Ltd. (publisher) Somerset Songs Publishing Inc. Warner Brothers Music Ltd. (UK subsidiary, so named between 1970/01/23–1971/04/26 and 1972/04/25–1988/08/23) Warner Chappell Music (publisher as Warner/Chappell Music) Fujipacific Music inc. (until 2014-12-31) Fujipacific Music, Inc. (from 2015-01-01 to present)

later translated parody versions:	Ich weiss jenau wat de meinz
later translated versions:	Foi você quem trouxe Mitä rakkaus on 三日月の夜の小鳥たち
arrangements:	Adesso (translated)