Love & Kisses — Where to Listen on the Radio

Love & Kisses is an euro-disco, disco and eurodisco artist from Europe, XE, active since 1977. ArtisFind has detected 2 plays of Love & Kisses on 2 radio stations in Italy and Switzerland, most recently on Funky Corner Radio 14d ago. The song heard most often on air is “I Found Love (Now That I Found You)”.

Love & Kisses is a 1970s disco group assembled by European producer Alec Costandinos, with a variety of male and female singers.

After collaborating on Cerrone's debut album Love In C Minor (1976), Costandinos assembled Love & Kisses in early 1977, and shortly after the group released their first album, Love and Kisses, which contained just two songs - and so was also classed as a double A-side single. These were "Accidental Lover" and "I Found Love (Now That I Found You)", which combined orchestral sounds, classical influences and a disco arrangement. The single charted at #1 for three weeks on Billboard's disco/dance chart.

The album cover has been criticized for depicting a woman with several men's hands ripping holes in her T-shirt, with one commentator writing, "Although rape is not overtly shown on this record cover, the picture conveys the impression of a gang rape about to happen." In a Billboard article about album covers depicting sex and violence against women, Casablanca Records' director of creative services admitted that he had "questions about the company's 'Love & Kisses' LP."

The following year saw the release of the group's second album entitled How Much, How Much I Love You (the title track covered side one, "Beauty and the Beast" completed side two, along with a love song, "Maybe"), utilizing the same basic formula. Both songs became top five disco hits. This was followed closely by the group's biggest hit, "Thank God It's Friday", the theme song from…