"Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" is a 1967 number-one hit
single recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. The
second single from the Supremes' album
The Supremes Sing Holland–Dozier–Holland, it was written
and produced by Motown's main production team
Holland–Dozier–Holland.
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."
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 4 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.. The girl group performed the hit record on NBC's
The Andy Williams Showon Sunday, January 22, 1967, going
to number one two weeks later. Lyricist Eddie Holland names
"Love is Here" as his favorite Supremes song.
Michael Jackson later covered "Love Is Here, and Now You're
Gone" for his solo debut album,
Got to Be There. On the 45 versions, it was the B-side
of his number two smash, "Rockin' Robin".
Meet The Supremes(1962)
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Where Did Our Love Go(1964)
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More Hits by The Supremes(1965)
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I Hear a Symphony(1966)
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Merry Christmas(1965)
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The Supremes A' Go-Go(1966)
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The Supremes Sing Holland–Dozier–Holland(1967)
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Reflections(1968)
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Love Child(1968)
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Let the Sunshine In(1969)
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Cream of the Crop(1969)
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Right On(1970)
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New Ways but Love Stays(1970)
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Touch(1971)
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Floy Joy(1972)
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The Supremes Produced and Arranged by Jimmy Webb(1972)
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The Supremes(1975)
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High Energy(1976)
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Mary, Scherrie & Susaye(1976)
Diana Ross & the Supremes Join The Temptations(1968)
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Together(1969)
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The Magnificent 7(1970)
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The Return of the Magnificent 7(1971)
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Dynamite!(1971)
The Supremes at the Copa(1965)
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Live at London's Talk of the Town(1968)
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TCB(1968)
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On Broadway(1969)
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Farewell(1970)
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The Supremes Live! In Japan(1973)
A Bit of Liverpool(1964)
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The Supremes Sing Country, Western and Pop(1965)
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We Remember Sam Cooke(1965)
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The Supremes Sing Rodgers & Hart(1967)
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Diana Ross & the Supremes Sing and Perform "Funny
Girl"(1968)
"Where Did Our Love Go"
·"Baby Love"
·"Come See About
Me"
·"Stop! In the
Name of Love"
·"Back in My Arms
Again"
·"I Hear a
Symphony"
·"My World Is
Empty Without You"
·"Love Is Like an
Itching in My Heart"
·"You Can't Hurry
Love"
·"You Keep Me
Hangin' On"
·"
Love Is Here and Now You're Gone
"
·"The Happening"
·"Reflections"
·"In and out of
Love"
·"Love Child"
·"I'm Gonna Make
You Love Me"
·"I'm Livin' in
Shame"
·"Someday We'll Be
Together"
·"Up the Ladder to
the Roof"
·"Stoned Love"
·"River Deep –
Mountain High"
·"Nathan Jones"
·"Floy Joy"
·"Automatically
Sunshine"
The T.A.M.I. Show
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Greatest Hits: Live in Amsterdam
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Reflections: The Definitive Performances (1964–1969)
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Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever
Discography
·Timeline
·Chronology
·Members
·(Broadway
musical)
·(film)
·Berry Gordy
·Holland–Dozier–Holland
·FLOS