- Love Is Here and Now You're Gone
Infobox Single
Name = Love Is Here and Now You're Gone
Artist =The Supremes
from Album =The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland
Released =January 11 ,1967 (U.S.)
Format =Vinyl record (7" 45 RPM)
Recorded =Los Angeles ,August 12 ,1966 ;Hitsville USA (Studio A),September 22 &November 13 ,1966
Genre = Soul/pop
Length = 2:48
Label =Motown
M 1103
Writer =Holland-Dozier-Holland
Producer =Brian Holland
Lamont Dozier
Chart position =- #1 (U.S.)
- #6 (United World Chart)
- #17 (UK)
Last single = "You Keep Me Hangin' On "
(1966)
This single = "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone"
(1967)
Next single = "The Happening"
(1967)"Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" is a1967 number-one hit single recorded byThe Supremes for theMotown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production teamHolland-Dozier-Holland , "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" was the number-one song on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart for one week, fromMarch 4 toMarch 11 1967 .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 prominentharpsichord and strings, which recalls both aHollywood film score andThe Left Banke 's recently popularized "Baroque rock.""Love is Here" was primarily recorded in
Los Angeles, California , thousands of miles away from Motown's regularHitsville USA recording studio, because Holland-Dozier-Holland wanted a different feel for the record than the typical Supremes sound. LyricistEddie Holland names "Love is Here" as his favorite Supremes song.A number-one hit on both the US pop and R&B charts, it was also a #6 hit in the United World Chart. "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" was the second single from the Supremes' album "
The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland ".Cover versions
* "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" was covered by 13-year-old Michael Jackson on his solo debut album, "Got to Be There." On the 45 version, it was the B-side of his number two smash, "Rockin' Robin."
Credits
* Lead vocals by
Diana Ross
* Backing vocals byFlorence Ballard , Mary Wilson, and session singers
* Instrumentation byLos Angeles area studio musicians
* Written byBrian Holland ,Lamont Dozier , andEdward Holland, Jr.
* Produced by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozieree also
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Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1967 (USA)
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