“The Love I Lost” – Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
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This song was originally written as a slow, woeful ballad, but Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes performed it as a fast-tempo, early disco-style number. It is cited as “one of the transitional songs marking the emergence of disco from traditional rhythm and blues as a distinctive style of music.”
“The Love I Lost” was one of the Blue Notes’ most popular songs, reaching #1 on the US R&B chart and #7 on the US pop chart in 1973.
This song was originally written as a slow, woeful ballad, but Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes performed it as a fast-tempo, early disco-style number. It is cited as “one of the transitional songs marking the emergence of disco from traditional rhythm and blues as a distinctive style of music.”
“The Love I Lost” was one of the Blue Notes’ most popular songs, reaching #1 on the US R&B chart and #7 on the US pop chart in 1973.
