Love Can't Turn Around

"Love Can't Turn Around" is a 1986 Chicago house song by American musicians, DJs and record producers Farley Keith Williams a.k.a.

It holds an important place in the history of house music as the first record in that genre to cross over from the US clubs to the UK Singles Chart.

Hayes' original version remained a club favourite for many years and was often played at the Warehouse, the influential Chicago nightclub which was the focus of the house music scene in the early 1980s.

Silk, recorded a house version of the song with vocalist Keith Nunnally, which reached number one on the Billboard magazine's Hot Dance Club Play chart.

[3] Same year, Rolling Stone featured the song in their "20 Best Chicago House Records" list, writing, "This track is the result of a musical metamorphosis.

"[2] In 2015, Time Out magazine ranked it number 13 in their list of "The 20 Best House Tracks Ever", saying, "Originally a riff on a proto-house classic, Isaac Hayes's 1975 disco foray 'I Can't Turn Around', this collaboration between turbo-lunged singer Darryl Pandy and Farley Keith blew the roof off house music at the time.