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'Everlasting Love' Singer ROBERT KNIGHT Dead at 72 [TRIBUTE]

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'Everlasting Love' Singer ROBERT KNIGHT Dead at 72 [TRIBUTE]


TMZ Reports:  Robert Knight, best known for his 1967 hit "Everlasting Love," is dead.

Knight died over the weekend at his home in Tennessee after fighting a short illness, according to the Tennessean.

Knight never had quite the chart topper he did with "Everlasting Love" but went on to record several other songs like "Blessed are the Lonely," "Isn't it Lonely Together" and "Love on a Mountain Top" in the '60s and '70s.

While you definitely know Knight's biggest hit, it's likely you know some other version more than his. Carl Carlton hit the top 10 with a 1974 cover. Knight topped out at 13 on the charts. Gloria Estefan, U2 and many other artists have covered it as well.

Knight was 72.

Page Six reports:  

Robert Knight, who recorded the first version of the hit song “Everlasting Love,” died Sunday after a short illness, The Tennessean reported Monday. He was 72.

Over the past 50 years, Knight’s “Everlasting Love” was covered by Carl Carlton, Love Affair, U2 and Gloria Estefan, among others. After leaving music, Knight worked as a lab technician at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

Knight was featured in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s exhibit “Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm and Blues,” which opened in 2004 and ran for over a year.

Funeral arrangements are unknown at this time.


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