'We honestly didn't think was going to last six weeks,' Williams said of The Love Boat to Songfacts.
It should come as no surprise that Love Boat producers hired a couple of songwriting giants to compose the song – Charles Fox, who helped write Roberta Flack's 'Killing Me Softly with His Song,' and Paul Williams, the Oscar-winning tunesmith behind Barbra Streisand's 'Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star is Born)' and 'Rainbow Connection' from The Muppet Movie.
