Then Came You (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Then Came You


Caption =
Artist = Dionne Warwick & Spinners
from Album = Then Came You
A-side = Then Came You
B-side = Just As Long As We Have Love
Released = 1974
Format = 7" single
Recorded = 1974
Genre = Soul, pop
Length = 4:15
Label = Atlantic
Writer = Sherman Marshall, Philip Pugh
Producer = Thom Bell
Chart position = #1 (US)
Certification = RIAA Gold Million Seller
Last single = "I'm Just Being Myself"
(1973)
This single = "Then Came You"
(1974)
Next single = "Take It From Me"
(1975)

"Then Came You" was a 1974 Grammy-nominated hit for American soul singer Dionne Warwick and American R&B group The Spinners, and credited to "Dionne Warwicke and Spinners" (from 1971–1975, Warwick added a final 'e' to her last name). The track was written by Sherman Marshall and Phillip T. Pugh, and produced by Thom Bell.

Released during a time that Warwick's chart fortunes were at an ebb after moving to Warner Bros. Records in the early-1970s, the Philadelphia soul single was a rare mid-1970s success for the singer. Sung as a duet with Bobby Smith and the Spinners, who were one of the most popular groups of the decade, the song became Warwick's first ever single to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and also became her highest-charting R&B record reaching number two on that chart. It was also the first number-one pop hit for the Spinners.

It should be noted that while Warwick was signed to Warner Bros. at the time, this release actually came out on Atlantic, which was the Spinners' label.

Warwick eventually left Warner Bros. for Arista in 1978 where she regrouped and found consistent success again as an artist.

Trivia

"Then Came You" is tied with the record that preceded it at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, "Nothing From Nothing" by Billy Preston, for the biggest fall from number one in the history of the Hot 100. Both "Nothing From Nothing" and "Then Came You" spent only one week at number one and then dropped all the way to number 15 the week afterward.