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We Were Meant to Be Lovers

1980 single by Jim Photoglo

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ60048157 ↗
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"We Were Meant to Be Lovers" is the debut single by Jim Photoglo, released in 1980 from his debut album, Photoglo. It reached No. 31 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 14 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Cover versions have been recorded by Rita Remington in 1980 and David Slater in 1988. Slater's version reached No. 63 on the Billboard Country chart.

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“We Were Meant to Be Lovers” enters the record as 1980 single by Jim Photoglo. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Meant, Lovers and single can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Meant, Lovers and single.
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“We Were Meant to Be Lovers” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Meant, Lovers and single provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q60048157. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980 and 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “We Were Meant to Be Lovers” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.