Love Come Down
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Side-A label of U.S. 12-inch vinyl single
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| Single by Evelyn King | ||||||||||
| from the album Get Loose | ||||||||||
| Released | July 1982 | |||||||||
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| Recorded | 1981 | |||||||||
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| Length | 6:14 | |||||||||
| Label | RCA | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Kashif | |||||||||
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"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.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.
The song has been sampled several times:
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