"Love Is Alive" is a song by
Gary Wright taken from the 1975 album The Dream Weaver. It features Wright on vocals and keyboards and
Andy Newmark on drums, with all music except for the drums produced on the keyboards. The album's
title cut and "Love Is Alive" both peaked at No. 2 on the
Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[2] "Love Is Alive" spent 27 weeks on the chart, seven weeks longer than "Dream Weaver". Billboard ranked "Love Is Alive" as the
No. 9 song of 1976.
Olivia Newton-John covered the track on her first live album, Love Performance in 1976. She performed the song on her first 1976 ABC-TV special[8] and on a 1977
BBC special.[9] Her rendition was also included as a bonus track on the 2010 Japanese re-issue of her album Totally Hot.
In 1991,
Joe Cocker covered "Love Is Alive" on his Night Calls LP. Released as a single, it reached number 72 in Canada and number 7 on the U.S.
Mainstream Rock chart in the summer of 1992.
In 1997, dance act
3rd Party recorded the song for their debut album Alive which charted on the Billboard Hot 100. This version peaked at number 19 on the US BillboardHot Dance Music chart.[11]
Joan Osborne covered the song on her album Righteous Love (2000). She frequently played it in concert, and one of these performances was included on the compilation album Radio Waves (2022). The
Associated Press called her cover version "improbably funky".[12]