Vorlage:Infobox Single "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" is a 1967 number-one hit single recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. The second single from the Supremes' album The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland, it was written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland-Dozier-Holland; "Love Is Here, and Now You're Gone" was the #1 song on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for one week, from March 4 to March 11 1967, becoming the group's ninth #1 single. The single was also the group's sixth number one on the R&B charts. [1].
The song, which depicts a relationship in the beginning stages of breakup ("You persuaded me to love you/And I did/But instead of tenderness/I found heartache instead"), features several spoken sections from lead singer Diana Ross, who delivers her dialogue in a dramatic, emotive voice. Matching the song's drama influences is an instrumental track, featuring a prominent harpsichord and strings, which recalls both a Hollywood film score and The Left Banke's recently popularized "Baroque rock."
"Love is Here" was primarily recorded in Los Angeles, California, thousands of miles away from Motown's regular Hitsville USA recording studio, because Holland-Dozier-Holland wanted a different feel for the record than the typical Supremes sound. The girl group performed the hit record on NBC's The Andy Williams Show on Sunday, January 22, 1967,[2] going to number one two weeks later. Lyricist Eddie Holland names "Love is Here" as his favorite Supremes song.
Michael Jackson later covered "Love Is Here, and Now You're Gone" for his solo debut album, Got to Be There. On the 45 versions, it was the B-side of his number two smash, "Rockin' Robin".
Credits
- Lead vocals by Diana Ross
- Backing vocals by Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, and The Andantes: Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow and Louvain Demps
- Instrumentation by Los Angeles area studio musicians
- Written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Edward Holland, Jr.
- Produced by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier
Chart history
| Chart | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard R&B Singles Chart | 1 |
| UK Singles Chart | 17 |
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See also
Notes
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- ↑ Joel Whitburn: Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research, 2004, S. 558.
- ↑ [1]