Close the Door (song)

"Close the Door" is a hit song written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. It was a hit for Teddy Pendergrass in 1978, and was released from his second solo album, Life Is a Song Worth Singing.

Chart performance

The song spent two weeks at number one on the R&B chart and peaked at number twenty-five on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It became a gold record. In the UK, "Close the Door" was a double-sided release along with Only You, it peaked at #41.

Samples

Altogether, the song has been sampled 45 times in popular music, primarily in the hip hop genre. These include:

• In 2002, R&B/hip hop soul girl group 3LW sampled Close the Door for their song "Neva Get Enuf"
• Mary J. Blige sampled the track in her song, "All Night Long" taken from her second album, My Life.
• Ayanda Jiya also sampled the track on her song "Go Go Girl".
• Rapper Keith Murray sampled the track in his song, "Get Lifted" from his 1994 debut album, The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World.

References

See also

List of number-one R&B singles of 1978 (U.S.)