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Kiss You All Over

1978 single by Exile

Summary

1978 single by Exile

Field	Value
name	Kiss You All Over
cover	Kiss You All Over.Exile.jpg
type	single
artist	Exile
album	Mixed Emotions
B-side
released
genre	* Soft rock
* pop rock<ref name	"AllMusic Sendra"
* disco<ref>{{cite news	first	Troy L.	last= Smith	title= Every No. 1 song of the 1970s ranked from worst to best	website= The Plain Dealer	date= 14 December 2021	access-date= 30 January 2023	url= https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2021/12/every-no-1-song-of-the-1970s-ranked-from-worst-to-best.html}}
length	4:57 (album version)
3:27 (single edit)
label	Warner/Curb Records (US)
RAK Records (UK)
writer
producer	Mike Chapman
prev_title	Try It On
prev_year	1976
next_title	Never Gonna Stop
next_year	1978
misc

| B-side =

pop rock
disco 3:27 (single edit) RAK Records (UK)
Mike Chapman
Nicky Chinn "Kiss You All Over" is a 1978 song performed by American music group Exile, written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn. It was included on the band's third album, Mixed Emotions (1978), and featured frontman Jimmy Stokley and guitarist J.P. Pennington on vocals. On the American Top 40 broadcast of May 26, 1979, Casey Kasem reported that Chapman stated his source of inspiration for "Kiss You All Over" was "It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me" by Barry White. The song was a number one single in the United States, but proved to be Exile's only big hit in the pop market (they would later have great success on the country music charts).

Kiss You All Over is the first Exile song to feature founding member J.P. Pennington on lead vocals.

It held the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks (starting September 30), The strings are played with a synthesizer on a backing track. In 2010, Billboard ranked the song tenth on its list of "The 50 Sexiest Songs of All Time".

Co-lead vocalist on the number, Stokley parted ways from the band in 1979, due to tensions with producer Mike Chapman. After the success of "Kiss You All Over", soft rock singles from the albums Mixed Emotions and All There Is charted lower in comparison.

The band moved into country music in the 1980s, after their self-written pop singles, despite failing, became hits for other acts such as Alabama and Huey Lewis and The News. The music change worked for Exile, as they would have over ten No. 1 hits on the U.S. country charts.

Personnel

Exile

J.P. Pennington - vocals, guitars
Jimmy Stokley - vocals
Danny Williams - bass, vocals
Buzz Cornelison - piano, backup vocals
Marlon Hargis - synthesizers, backup vocals
Steve Goetzman - drums

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1978)	Peak
position
last=Kent	first=David	author-link=David Kent (historian)	title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992	edition=illustrated	publisher=Australian Chart Book	location=St Ives, N.S.W.	year=1993	isbn=0-646-11917-6	page=106}}	1
South Africa (Springbok Radio)	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1978)	Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)	37
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)	59
Canada Top Singles (RPM)	58
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)	32
Netherlands (Single Top 100)	71
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)	7
South Africa (Springbok Radio)	3
US Billboard Hot 100	5

Chart (1979)	Position
url=https://i.imgur.com/VVyraDN.jpg	title=Kent Music Report No 288 – 31 December 1979 National Top 100 Singles for 1979	publisher=Kent Music Report	via=Imgur	access-date=10 January 2023}}	39
West Germany (Official German Charts)	37

All-time charts

Chart (1958–2018)	Position
US Billboard Hot 100	163

Certifications

Broadway version

| B-side = Love Bandit

Disco band Broadway recorded their version. The single backed with "Love Bandit" was released on Hilltak 7802, and distributed by Atlantic Records. It was also issued in a 12" format. Music magazine called it "The inevitable disco version".

It had a three-week run with the song on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart, peaking at No. 92 on December 16, 1978.

Charts

Chart (1978)	Peak
position
US Hot Soul Singles (Billboard)	92

No Mercy version

MCI
BMG
Arista
Mike Chapman
Nicky Chinn
Johnny Vicious
Darrin "Spike" Friedman

German Eurodance trio No Mercy's 1997 remixed version by Johnny Vicious and Darrin "Spike" Friedman reached number-one on the US Billboard Dance Club Play chart. It also reached number 16 on the UK Singles Chart and number 47 in Australia. The accompanying music video was directed by DoRo Productions.

Critical reception

Larry Flick from Billboard magazine wrote that "there's no denying that No Mercy's eponymous album is several notches above standard dance/pop fare—as evidenced by this Latin-spiced rendition of Exile's '70s-era hit." He noted that "the song's hook thrives within FMP's arrangement of swirling house beats and flamenco guitars." He also added "factor in the act's sweet harmonies". Another Billboard editor, Paul Verna, named it an "giddy rendition". Diana Valois from The Morning Call named "Kiss You All Over" the "second best cut" of the album, describing it as "a full-blown flamenco exotica cover". Pan-European magazine Music & Media constated that "this highly successful trio has given this song a poppy-flamenco treatment that is likely to mean it will chart all over the place once again, something that proves that good songs last a long while." A reviewer from Music Week gave the song a score of four out of five, concluding, "A third huge hit for the boys."

Track listing

CD single

"Kiss You All Over" (radio edit) – 4:31
"Kiss You All Over" (club mix) – 5:53
"Bonita" (radio edit) – 3:54
"Bonita" (club mix) – 7:08

Charts

Chart (1997)	Peak
position	Estonia (Eesti Top 20)	Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)	Hungary (Mahasz)	US Dance Club Play (Billboard)
8
20
5
1

Release history

Region	Date	Format(s)
1999	CD
August 25, 1997
October 7, 1997		Arista

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