Love Don't Live Here Anymore
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| "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" | ||
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| Single by Madonna | ||
| from the album Like a Virgin and Something to Remember | ||
| B-side(s) | "Over and Over" | |
| Released | November 1985 March 19, 1996 |
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| Format | 7", 12", CD, CD maxi | |
| Recorded | 1983 | |
| Genre | Pop, Soul | |
| Length | 4:45 4:54 (remix) |
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| Label | 1985 - Sire Records Warner Pioneer Japan 1996 - Maverick Records Warner Bros. Records WEA International |
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| Writer(s) | Miles Gregory | |
| Producer(s) | Nile Rodgers (Like a Virgin) David Reitzas (Something to Remember) |
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| Chart positions | ||
| Madonna singles chronology | ||
| "Gambler" (1985) |
"Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (1985) |
"Live to Tell" (1986) |
| Madonna singles chronology | ||
| "Oh Father (re-issue)" (1996) |
"Love Don't Live Here Anymore (Remix)" (1996) |
"One More Chance" (1996) |
| Like a Virgin track listing | ||
| "Over and Over" (4) |
"Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (5) |
"Dress You Up" (6) |
| Something to Remember track listing | ||
| "Live to Tell" (7) |
"Love Don't Live Here Anymore (Remix)" (8) |
"Something to Remember" (9) |
"Love Don't Live Here Anymore" is a 1978 song originally recorded by Rose Royce and produced by former Motown songwriter and producer Norman Whitfield for the Whitfield Records label. The Rose Royce version reached #32 on the Billboard Hot 100, still the highest charting version of the numerous covers performed by other artists, of this song.
It was later covered by Morrissey-Mullen (1979), Madonna (1984), I'm Talking (1985), Jimmy Nail (1986), Faith Evans (1995) and Patti LaBelle amongst others. A live bootleg copy of a cover of the song has also been found, performed by Dallas Green of City and Colour/Alexisonfire. (date unknown)
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[edit] Song information
An early cover of the song was the instrumental track cut at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in 1979, when British jazz fusion duo Morrissey-Mullen was chosen to record EMI's first-ever digital recording of a non-classical music piece and which was released as a limited edition 12" EP.
Madonna's cover of "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" was recorded for her 1984 album Like a Virgin and produced by Nile Rodgers for Nile Rodgers Productions, Inc. It was released as a 7" single in Japan in March 1986 and made it as the 12" single B-side to the 1987 single "The Look of Love".
In 1995 Madonna released a compilation of her greatest ballad hits entitled Something to Remember, which included a remixed version of the song. In 1996, Warner Bros. Records commissioned a video (directed by Jean Baptiste Mondino) and released it as a single in certain markets such as Germany, South Africa, Australia and the United States. However, Warner Music UK did not want to issue another re-release in support of Something to Remember and instead released "Oh Father", which has been released previously in other parts of the world but not the UK.
Warner Bros. had commissioned dance remixes for the song which were released as promos to club DJs only. These remixes are highly sought after by fans and often found their way into peer-to-peer music sharing sites, though the Soulpower remixes were made available on the single, and one was used in the music video.
[edit] Music video
The video for "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (released in 1996, 12 years after the single's original recording for the Like a Virgin album in 1984) has the arresting visuals that is associated with Jean Baptiste Mondino: Madonna is seen pacing back and forth in a room filled with ornate furnitures and blowing gossamer-like drapes. It is also interesting that the clip was one long continuous take, with the camera slowly zooming into Madonna and then slowly zooming back out again.
While filming the video, Madonna often forgot the lyrics to the song (a song that she had recorded in the mid-1980s and had never performed live), burst out laughing, and ruin the shot, thus having to start from the beginning again. In her Evita diaries, published by Vanity Fair in 1996, Madonna made reference to the video shoot, which took place during downtime from the Evita set in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In her writings, she specifically mentioned forgetting the lyrics of the song, suggesting she was having an identity crisis of sorts trying to juggle her own identity with that of her role in Evita.
Madonna was also in the early stages of her pregnancy with daughter Lourdes while filming the music video.
[edit] Track listings and formats
1985 Release (Released only in Japan)
7" vinyl single
- "Love Don't Live Here Anymore"
- "Over And Over"
1996 re-release
- "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (Soulpower radio remix edit) (4:05)
- "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (Album remix edit) (4:05)
- "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (Soulpower radio remix) (4:44)
- "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (Album remix) (4:45)
[edit] Remixes
Most of the remixes by Soulpower and Mark Picciotti were only available promotionally to DJs, though the radio edits were readily available on the single.
- Album version (4:46)
- Album remix (4:53)
- Album remix edit (4:04)
- Extended Journey (8:00) Promo only
- Video version (4:39)
- Video instrumental (4:39)
- Soulpower radio remix (4:46)
- Soulpower radio remix edit (4:05)
- Hot Mix eEdit (6:45) Promo only
- Hot Mix radio edit (4:52) Promo only
- Early Morning dub (10:09) Promo only
- Edge Factor dub (8:37) Promo only
- Mark!'s Full On vocal (10:06) Promo only
- Mark!'s Edit On vocal (4:53) Promo only
- Mark!'s It's A Boy dub (9:20) Promo only
- Mark!'s It's A Girl dub (8:04) Promo only
- Mark!'s radio mix (4:03) Promo only
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