Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ft Teddy Pendergrass - The Love I Lost (Phil Intern. Rec.) 1973, 2010

"The Love I Lost" is a song by American R&B group Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. Originally written as a ballad by Philly soul songwriters Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, the song was transformed into a disco song and features drummer Earl Young. It was released from the Black & Blue album in late 1973 and sold more than a million copies. In the 21st century, the track has been the subject of extended re-edits by notable remixers Tom Moulton and this mix by Dimitri From Paris.

"The Love I Lost" is considered an early example of disco. The track was one of the transitional songs marking the emergence of disco from traditional rhythm and blues as a distinctive style of music. It peaked at number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100 and spent two weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart. It also reached #21 in the United Kingdom in early 1974.

Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were an American soul and R&B vocal group. One of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s, the group's repertoire included soul, R&B, doo-wop, and disco. Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the middle of the 1950s as The Charlemagnes, the group is most noted for several hits on Gamble and Huff's Philadelphia International label between 1972 and 1976, although they performed and recorded until Melvin's death in 1997. Despite group founder and original lead singer Harold Melvin's top billing, the Blue Notes' most famous member was Teddy Pendergrass, their lead singer during the successful years at Philadelphia International. The remaining members of the Blue Notes have reunited for Soul Train Cruises in 2013, 2015, and 2017.

Dimitri from Paris is a French music producer and DJ of Greek descent. His musical influences are rooted in 1970s funk and disco sounds that spawned contemporary house music, as well as original soundtracks from 1950s and 1960s movies such as Breakfast at Tiffany's, La Dolce Vita and The Party, which were sampled in his album Sacrebleu.

Has anyone out there lost someone?
That kind of meant the world to ya
My, my, my, my lord
My, my, my, I had a sweet love
I had a good love
I, I had a woman that wold stand right there by my side
My lover didn't know
I didn't realize, I didn't realize,
I didn't realize what I had
Until the day you walked out the door
My love I swear I ain't gonna love no more
'Cause I can't stand it, I can stand it baby
No, no, no
She was a good thang
She was a good love
She was a sweet thang, my love
She looked so good
She looked so fine
I thought she was all mine, my love
I treated her bad, would you forgive me baby
If I got down on my hands and knees and begged you please
Would you take me back, take me back, take me back
My love, I wonder if anyone out there feeling like the way I do
'Cause you lost it
Has anyone out there lost someone that kinda meant the world to you
If so stand up and sing along with me children
Yea, yea, yea, yea, yea, yea, yea, yea
Say it ya'll, say it ya'll
Say it, say it, say it ya'll
Say you lost it
I, I lost it
Yes I did
Ooh, my lawd I lost it
Come on ya'll, mhmm come on ya'll, come along with me children

The love I lost was a sweet love
The love I lost was complete love
The love I lost, I will never, no, no, never love again

I can remember planning
Building my whole world around you
I can remember hoping
That you and I could make it on through
But something went wrong
We loved each other
We just couldn't get along
Take a good look at me
I'm in misery, can't you see?
The love I lost
Was a sweet love (yes it was)
The love I lost
Was complete love
The love I lost
I will never (never), no, no, never (never)
Love again, ooh

I can't remember nothing, no no
But the good times we used to share
I didn't care, I'm so sad and lonely
Without you, my life is so dead

I'm sorry to say
You go your way and I'll go my way
It hurts deep inside
That the day, the day we said goodbye

The love I lost
(The love, the love I lost)
Was a sweet love
(It was a sweet love)
The love I lost
(The love, the love I lost)
Was complete love
(It was complete love)

The love I lost, ooh, ooh
I will never, no, no, never
(Never, never)
Love again
(I'll never love again)
I will never, no, no, never
(Never, never)
Love again, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I will never, no, no, never
(Never, never)
Love again

(Never, never)
Love again, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I will never, no, no, never
(Never, never)
Love again (repeat)

I ain't gonna never love again
(never)
Never, never, never
I ain't never gonna love again
My, my, my love
Yea, yea yeaaa, ooh, love

She was a good love, she was a sweet love
I thought I had her right here in my hands
But I lost it, I thought I had you all to myself
I didn't realize, I didn't realize exactly what I had
But you come back home, come on back home baby
I'm sorry, I'm sorry baby, I wonder what you've been doing baby
I've been worried about you, I've been wondering where you are
My lawd, what you been doing, would you forgive me baby
(I lost it, sorry I lost it)

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