Love Come Down

"Love Come Down"

Side-A label of U.S. 12-inch vinyl single
Single by Evelyn King
from the album Get Loose
Released July 1982
Format
  • 7" single
  • 12" single
Recorded 1981
Genre
Length 6:14
Label RCA
Writer(s) Kashif
Producer(s)
  • Morrie Brown
  • Kashif
  • Paul Lawrence Jones III
Certification Gold
Evelyn King singles chronology
"Spirit of the Dancer"
(1982)		 "Love Come Down"
(1982)		 "Betcha She Don't Love You"
(1982)
Music video
"Love Come Down" on YouTube

"Love Come Down" is a 1982 hit single by Evelyn King. It was produced by Morrie Brown and written by Kashif. "Love Come Down" was the first single culled from her multi-platinum, number-one R&B album, Get Loose (which charted at #27 on the Billboard 200). In the U.S., it reached number one on the R&B and dance charts and number seventeen on the Billboard Hot 100. It cracked the top 20 on the charts in several other countries.

A reggae version of the song by Jamaican singer Barry Biggs hit the top 5 in The Netherlands in 1983. The song was a UK Top 40 hit in 1994 when covered by British singer Alison Limerick. In 2013, The Saturdays released a cover of the song as a b-side to single "Disco Love". In 2014, Liam Keegan is due to release a version of "Love Come Down" featuring vocalist Julia Schlippert.[1][2] Jess Glynne also performed a cover of the song on the 2015/16 edition of Jools' Annual Hootenanny.

In 2014, "Love Come Down" has been placed on Bruce Pollock's list of The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000.[3]

Track listing

12" single PD-13274
A-side
No. Title Length
1. "Love Come Down" (Vocal) 6:16
B-side
No. Title Length
1. "Love Come Down" (Instrumental) 5:56
7" single PB-13273
A-side
No. Title Length
1. "Love Come Down" (Vocal) 3:43
B-side
No. Title Length
1. "Love Come Down" (Instrumental) 3:43

Credits and personnel

Post-production

Charts

Chart (1982) Peak
position
France (SNEP) 19
Japan Singles Chart 10
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[4] 12
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[5] 7
US Billboard Hot 100[6] 17
US Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs 1
US Billboard Hot Black Singles 1
US Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks 3

Sampling

The song has been sampled several times:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 DJ RICO MIXSHOW » MIXSHOW » Liam Keegan ft. Julia Schlippert "Love Come Down"
  2. 1 2 new single "Love Comes Down" ft Julia Schlippert is this weeks #4 Breakout on the Billboard Dance Chart
  3. ↑ Pollock, Bruce (Mar 18, 2014). Rock Song Index: The 7500 Most Important Songs for the Rock and Roll Era. Routledge/Taylor & Francis. p. 225. ISBN 1101160675.
  4. ↑ "Charts.org.nz – Evelyn King – Love Come Down". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Archive Chart: 1982-09-26" UK Singles Chart. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Evelyn "Champagne" King – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Evelyn "Champagne" King. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
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