| Love Is Here and Now You're Gone | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | the Supremes |
| 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 |
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| Prev Title: | You Keep Me Hangin' On |
| Prev Year: | 1966 |
| Next Title: | The Happening |
| Next Year: | 1967 |
"Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" is a 1967 song recorded by the Supremes for the Motown label.
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]
| Chart (1967) | Peak position | |
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| Australia (Go-Set)[7] | 40 | |
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[8] | 45 | |
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| UK R&B (Record Mirror)[9] | 1 | |
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| US Cashbox Top 100[10] | 1 | |
| US Cashbox R&B[11] | 2 | |
| US Record World 100 Top Pops[12] | 1 | |
| US Record World Top 50 R&B[13] | 3 |
| Chart (1967) | Rank | |
|---|---|---|
| Canada Top Singles (RPM)[14] | 40 | |
| US Billboard Hot 100[15] | 26 | |
| US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[16] | 17 | |
| US Cashbox Top 100[17] | 40 | |
| US Cashbox R&B<ref>Web site: The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1967. Cashbox. 31 December 2020. | 38 |
Michael Jackson later covered "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" for his solo debut album, Got to Be There.[18] On the 45 versions, it was the B-side of his number two smash, "Rockin' Robin".[19] It also featured on the "Jackson and the Beanstalk" episode of the Jackson 5ive cartoon series in 1972.[20]
Tami Lynn covered this song on her debut album, Love Is Here and Now You're Gone in 1972.[21]
Phil Collins included this song on his 2010 album of soul covers, Going Back.[22]