Close the Door (song)

For other songs with this title, see Close the Door (disambiguation).

"Close the Door" is a hit song written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff.^[1] It was a hit for Teddy Pendergrass in 1978, and was released from his second solo album, Life Is a Song Worth Singing.

"Close the Door"
Single by Teddy Pendergrass
from the album Life Is a Song Worth Singing
B-side	"Get Up, Get Down, Get Funky, Get Loose"
Released	May 4, 1978
Studio	Sigma Sound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Genre	Soul
Length	3:37 (Single Version) 5:25 (Album Version)
Label	Philadelphia International Records
Songwriter(s)	Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff
Teddy Pendergrass singles chronology
"The Whole Town's Laughing at Me" (1977) "Close the Door" (1978) "Only You" (1978)

Chart performance

The song spent two weeks at number one on the R&B chart and peaked at number twenty-five on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.^[2] It became a gold record. In the UK, "Close the Door" was a double-sided release along with Only You, it peaked at #41.^[3]

Samples

Altogether, the song has been sampled 45 times in popular music, primarily in the hip hop genre.^[4] These include:

• In 2002, R&B/hip hop soul girl group 3LW sampled Close the Door for their song "Neva Get Enuf"
• Mary J. Blige sampled the track in her song, "All Night Long" taken from her second album, My Life.
• Ayanda Jiya also sampled the track on her song "Go Go Girl".
• Rapper Keith Murray sampled the track in his song, "Get Lifted" from his 1994 debut album, The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World.