Waiting for Your Love

1983 single by Toto
"Waiting for Your Love"
Single by Toto
from the album Toto IV
B-side"Lovers in the Night"
ReleasedJune 1983 (US)
  • July 29, 1983 (UK)[1]
GenrePost-disco
Length4:12
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Bobby Kimball, David Paich
Producer(s)Toto
Toto singles chronology
"I Won't Hold You Back"
(1983) 		"Waiting for Your Love"
(1983) 		"Stranger in Town"
(1984)

"Waiting for Your Love" is a song by American pop and rock band Toto from their 1982 album Toto IV. In 1983, it was released as a single, peaking at number 73 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[2]

Composition

The song was written by vocalist Bobby Kimball and keyboardist David Paich and is performed in the key of A-flat major.[3]

Kimball said in an interview that he "wrote it in the '70s and originally called it "'You Got Me'".[4]

Reception

Somethingelsereviews.com wrote that Bobby Kimball gave a fantastic lead vocal performance in the song, and that "Waiting for Your Love" had an infectious, danceable, back beat.[5]

Personnel

  • Bobby Kimball – vocals
  • David Hungate – bass guitar
  • David Paich – synthesizers, background vocals
  • Steve Lukather – guitar, background vocals
  • Steve Porcaro – synthesizers
  • Jeff Porcaro – drums, percussion

References

  1. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 24.
  2. ^ "Toto Chart History". www.billboard.com.
  3. ^ "Key & BPM for Waiting for Your Love by Toto – Tunebat". tunebat.com.
  4. ^ "Interview-Giveaway with Toto's Bobby Kimball – Goldmine Magazine". December 18, 2017.
  5. ^ "Toto, "Waiting For Your Love" from 'Toto IV' (1982): Toto Tuesdays". June 21, 2016.
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