Diana ROSS: Why do fools fall in love + I’m coming out [Joey Negro re-mix] 7″ rare 1994. check video

“Why Do Fools Fall in Love” is a song by New York City-based rock and roll group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers that was released on January 10, 1956. It reached No. 1 on the R&B chart.Diana Ross version:
“Why Do Fools Fall in Love”
Single by Diana Ross
from the album Why Do Fools Fall in Love
B-side “I’m coming out [Joey Negro re-mix]”
Songwriter(s) Herman Santiago
Producer(s) Diana RossMusic video:
“Why Do Fools Fall in Love” on YouTube
Diana Ross released a cover version on the RCA label September 25, 1981, peaking at No. 2 on the US adult contemporary chart, No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart, No. 6 on the US R&B chart, and No. 7 on Billboard’s Pop Singles Chart,  and earning her a British Phonographic Industry silver disc award for sales in excess of 250,000 copies. It also reached No.1 in Belgium and the Netherlands and climbed to the top 10 in Ireland, New Zealand and Switzerland as well as making the top 20 in Australia, Canada and Germany. Unlike the original, this version contains echoes of the soul of the 1960s. A reissue of Ross’ cover peaked at No. 36 on the UK chart in July, 1994.

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Diana Ross ‎– Why Do Fools Fall In Love / I’m Coming Out (Joey Negro 1994 Remix)
Label:  EMI ‎– EM 332
Format Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM
Country: UK
Year: 1994
Genre: Electronic, Funk / Soul
Style: Garage House, Soul
Tracklist
A Why Do Fools Fall In Love
B I’m Coming Out (Joey Negro 7″ Mix)
Remix – Joey Negro

Matrix / Runout (Runout Stamp Side A): EM 332 A-1-1-Q1
Matrix / Runout (Runout Stamp Side B): EM 332 B-1-1-Q1
Barcode (Scanned): 724388151375

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Music video:
In the music video, Diana Ross performs the song in a city full of casinos and clubs (Las Vegas).

Personnel:
Diana Ross – producer, lead vocals, backing vocals
Rob Mounsey – musical arrangements
Ray Chew – electric piano
Eric Gale – electric guitar
Yogi Horton – drums
Neil Jason – bass
Ralph MacDonald – percussion
Jeff Mironov – electric guitar
Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, NYC – mastering
Bob Kulick – lead guitar

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Track listings:
7″ Single
“Why Do Fools Fall in Love” – 2:51 + I’m coming out [Joey Negro re-mix]

Certifications
Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI): Silver 200,000^
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

Chart performance Weekly charts
Chart (1981–82) Peak position
Australia Kent Music Report 15
Belgian Singles Chart 1
Canada RPM Top 100 17
Ireland (IRMA) 9
Netherlands 1
German Singles Chart 17
New Zealand Singles Chart 3
Swiss Singles Chart 9
UK Singles Chart 4
US Billboard Hot 100 7
US Billboard Adult Contemporary 2
US Billboard Hot Black Singles 6
US Cash Box Top 100 7

Year-end charts Chart (1981) Rank
UK 72
US Cash Box 64

Chart (1982) Rank
US Billboard Hot 100 54

Chart (1994) Peak position
UK Singles Chart 36

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 Why Do Fools Fall In Love:  “Ross’ first single for RCA has her digging back to a song that was a hit before she even signed with Motown.  It’s a giddy, lighthearted track which is a great change-of-pace from the solemn ballad ‘Endless Love,’ now in its ninth straight week at No. 1,” wrote Billboard in its October 10, 1981 issue, and the very next week, “Why Do Fools Fall In Love” debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at #56.  The song leapt into the Top 40 the following week, eventually peaking at #7, becoming Diana’s ninth top 10 hit as a solo artist (the single also peaked at #6 R&B and #2 Adult Contemporary).  Long before it was a hit for Diana, however, “Why Do Fools Fall In Love” had dominated the charts throughout much of 1956, thanks not only to its original version by Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers but also competing cover versions by Gale Storm, Gloria Mann, and The Diamonds (all four versions charted simultaneously on Billboard’s Top 100 for the week ending March 31!).  Lymon’s original was the biggest hit, of course, and remains an influential rock and roll classic; his group’s recording peaked at #6 on the Top 100 and #1 on the R&B Best Sellers in Stores chart.  Diana Ross has long been vocal about her appreciation for Lymon’s voice and his impact on her own singing career; she told Jet in 1981, “I used to sing it on the streets.  I’d walk through the backyard where I lived and there was an echo there and I’d sing ‘ahhh, ahhh’ like when he used to do the high part.  It just used to echo.  That was one of my favorite songs” (December 3).  For her own updated “Why Do Fools Fall In Love,” Miss Ross the producer enlisted Rob Mounsey as musical arranger; the prolific Mounsey had already contributed horn & string arrangements to several songs on the singer’s 1979 LP The Boss, which explains why the peppy feel of “Why Do Fools Fall In Love” recalls that earlier album in terms of the pure joy inherent in its groove.  The song is given a brassy, bouncy treatment here, with machine-gun drums, blaring horns, and a great guitar solo by Robert Kulick, known for his studio work with KISS (Diana happened to be dating KISS frontman Gene Simmons at the time).  Diana’s vocal is superbly done; her crystal-clear delivery is perfect for the sing-song quality of the melody, and the choice to layer her voice and feature her as her own background singer adds an exciting complexity.  This isn’t the most challenging song ever recorded by Diana Ross, and it certainly doesn’t stretch her much as a vocalist, but the vibrancy makes it a stand-out; she truly sounds happy and invigorated here, likely a reflection of her feelings about producing and being so creatively involved in the project.  To help promote the single, Diana recorded a music video for it in which she dances and sings down the Las Vegas strip; the clip received airplay on television programs including “Soul Train” and would later be included on her 1985 video collection The Visions Of Diana Ross.

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