| "Your Love" | ||||
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| Single by Jamie Principle | ||||
| Released | April 1986 | |||
| Genre | Chicago house | |||
| Label | Persona | |||
| Composer(s) | Jamie Principle | |||
| Lyricist(s) | Jamie Principle | |||
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"Your Love" is a 1986 Chicago house song that was recorded by American house artist Jamie Principle, who wrote its lyrics about a meeting with a woman Lisa. The lyrics were later given to Frankie Knuckles, a DJ who worked in Chicago clubs Principle frequented. Despite having not produced any original music, Knuckles agreed to work on the song after hearing Principle's original version. Knuckles added more music to the song and played it at his club, generating an enthusiastic reception. His version of the song was played from tapes and is different from later releases; according to Jacob Arnold of Wax Poetics, the edit Knuckles played at his club was musically a snare with vocals. For the first publicly available release, DJ Mark "Hot Rod" Trollan later revised the song by adding a synthesizer intro and a bassline; this version was first released in 1986 by Persona Records.
The song is often credited to Knuckles, despite having first been released by Principle.[1] It was re-released by Trax Records and credited to Knuckles, with Principle being credited as the songwriter. The Trax release and the Persona release are very similar to each other. The song did not create the wave of house music in Chicago, which only began after the release of "On and On" by Jesse Saunders. "Your Love" charted at number 59 in the United Kingdom and in 2014, after the death of Knuckles, it re-charted in the country, it re-entered the UK chart, peaking at number 29.