| "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" | ||||
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 Solid center variant of the UK single | ||||
| Single bythe Supremes | ||||
| from the albumThe Supremes Sing Holland–Dozier–Holland | ||||
| B-side | "There's No Stopping Us Now" | |||
| Released | January 11, 1967 (U.S.) | |||
| Recorded | Los Angeles, August 12, 1966;Hitsville U.S.A. (Studio A), September 22 and November 13, 1966 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 2:45 | |||
| Label | Motown –M 1103 | |||
| Songwriter | Holland–Dozier–Holland | |||
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| The Supremes singles chronology | ||||
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| Licensed audio | ||||
| "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" onYouTube | ||||
"Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" is a 1967 song recorded bythe Supremes for theMotown label.
Written and composed by Motown's main production teamHolland–Dozier–Holland, it became the second consecutive number-one pop single from the Supremes' albumThe Supremes Sing Holland–Dozier–Holland and the group's ninth overall chart-topper in the United States onBillboard Hot 100, peaking March 1967.[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 singerDiana Ross, who delivers her dialogue in a dramatic, emotive voice. Matching the song's drama influences is an instrumental track, featuring a prominentharpsichord andstrings, which recalls both aHollywoodfilm score andThe Left Banke's recently popularized "Baroque rock."[2]
Primarily recorded inLos Angeles, California, thousands of miles away from Motown's regularHitsville U.S.A. recording studio, "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" was the #1 song on the U.S.Billboard Hot 100 for one week, from March 5 to March 11, 1967, becoming the group's ninth number-one single. The single was also the group's sixth number one on the R&B charts.[3] The girl group performed the hit record onNBC'sThe Andy Williams Show on Sunday, January 22, 1967,[4] going to number one seven weeks later. LyricistEddie Holland names "Love is Here" as his favorite Supremes song.
Cash Box said the single is a "bright, rhythmic, pulsating Motown-sound excursion" in which the Supremes are "at the top of their form."[5]
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| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United States | — | 1,000,000[25] |
Michael Jackson later covered "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" for his solo debut album,Got to Be There.[26] On the 45 versions, it was the B-side of his number two smash, "Rockin' Robin".[27] It also featured on the "Jackson and the Beanstalk" episode of theJackson 5ive cartoon series in 1972.[28]
Tami Lynn covered this song on her debut album,Love Is Here and Now You're Gone in 1972.[29]
Phil Collins included this song on his 2010 album of soul covers,Going Back.[30]
