"Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" is a 1967 song recorded by the Supremes for the Motown label.
"Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" | ||||
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Single by the Supremes | ||||
from the album The 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 | |||
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Length | 2:45 | |||
Label | Motown – M 1103 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Holland–Dozier–Holland | |||
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"Love Is Here and Now You're Gone"
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Written and composed by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, it became the second consecutive number-one pop single from the Supremes' album The Supremes Sing Holland–Dozier–Holland and the group's ninth overall chart-topper in the United States on Billboard 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 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."[2]
Primarily recorded in Los Angeles, California, thousands of miles away from Motown's regular Hitsville 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 on NBC's The Andy Williams Show on Sunday, January 22, 1967,[4] going to number one seven weeks later. Lyricist Eddie 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 the Jackson 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]