Love Is Here and Now You're Gone

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Love Is Here and Now You're Gone
The Supremes
publication January 11, 1967
length 2:48
Genre (s) Pop , R&B
Author (s) Holland – Dozier – Holland
Publisher (s) Motown
album The Supremes Sing Holland – Dozier – Holland

Love Is Here and Now You're Gone is a pop song by the Holland – Dozier – Holland team of authors from 1966, which (produced by the team of authors) became a hit in the 1967 version of the Supremes .

History of origin

The last Supremes hit was You Keep Me Hangin 'On , a number one hit that had sales of 1.758 million copies in the US alone. Back then, the Supremes were fixated on the ideas of Holland-Dozier-Holland, who in Love Is Here and Now You're Gone presented a typical Motown love theme: the protagonist has fallen in love, but the lover wants to leave her, presented with a highly emotional tone Voice of the lead singer Diana Ross . In contrast to the rest of the time, the majority of the photos were taken in Los Angeles on August 12, 1966; only on September 22, 1966 were overdubs added in the Motown Recording Studios (Detroit) (especially the background choir Andantes), where the mixing took place on November 3, 1966 . Gene Page's arrangement with a harpsichord brings sounds alien to the Motown sound; the instrumentation did not come from the Funk Brothers as usual , but for once from studio musicians from The Wrecking Crew .

Supremes - Love is Here And Now You're Gone

Publication and Success

The single Love is Here and Now You're Gone / There's no Stopping Us Now ( Motown 1103) was released on January 11, 1967, and was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for a week from March 11, 1967 , making it ninth The band's number one hit. With 949,000 units sold in the USA, it barely missed the status of a million seller , but it became the 11th million seller of the vocal trio worldwide. It was the Supremes' sixth number one single on the rhythm and blues charts, their ninth on the Billboard Hot 100, and their first in the US Billboard Cash Box . In Great Britain the record reached number 17 on the charts . In the annual charts of Billboard Hot 100 , the song placed on rank 26 in the charts of the year the cash box at No. 40. The girl group joined with the song on 22 January 1967 in the NBC telecast The Andy Williams Show to. Lyricist Eddie Holland calls the piece his favorite Supremes song.

Strictly speaking, Love Is Here and Now You're Gone is not a release from the LP Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland , as this LP was only released on January 23, 1967. In terms of sales, this album sold better than the single with 1.518 million units. Love Is Here and Now You're Gone was released after You Keep Me Hangin 'On (which was also used for the LP Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland ). Previously, only Love is Like an Itching in My Heart (632,000 units) and Nothing But Heartaches (588,000) had worse sales for singles from the Supremes .

Cover versions

Michael Jackson covered the piece on his first solo album Got to Be There (January 1972); this version also appeared as the B-side of his single Rockin 'Robin (March 1972). Tami Lynn recorded a cover version for her debut album of the same name, Love Is Here and Now You're Gone from 1972. Phil Collins covered the song on his album Going Back (September 2010).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Billboard Hot 100". Billboard (Nielsen Company) 79 (10): 22nd 1967. Retrieved May 10, 2011.
  2. ^ Joseph Murrells, Million Selling Records , 1985, p. 251
  3. ^ Joel Whitburn, Top R & B / Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004, 2004, Record Research, p. 558
  4. ↑ January 22, 1967, The Andy Williams Show, NBC / KNBC, Burbank, California. 22 January 1967. No. 20, season 5
  5. ↑ Halstead, Craig; Cadman, Chris (2007). Michael Jackson: For The Record . Bedfordshire: Authors OnLine Ltd. P. 208