"Love Ballad" is a song by R&B/Funk band L.T.D.

Released from their album Love to the World, it spent two weeks at number one on the R&B singles chart in November 1976, and peaked at number twenty on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

[1] George Benson released an up-tempo rendition of "Love Ballad" in 1979.

[4] It also reached number 12 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Benson's cover is the most successful version of the song.