"You Got the Love"
Single by Rufus
from the album Rags to Rufus
B-side"Rags to Rufus"
ReleasedOctober 19, 1974
GenreR&B
Length2:54 (single version) 4:45 (album version)
LabelABC
Songwriter(s)Chaka Khan, Ray Parker Jr.
Producer(s)Bob Monaco, Rufus
Rufus singles chronology
"Tell Me Something Good"
(1974)
"You Got the Love"
(1974)
"Once You Get Started"
(1975)

"You Got the Love" is a hit song for the funk band Rufus. It was written by Ray Parker Jr. and Chaka Khan. From the Rags to Rufus album, it spent one week at number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart in 1974. It also peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[1]

Chart positions

Charts Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 11
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles 1

Other versions

"You Got the Love" is the first track of 1983 live album Stompin' at the Savoy โ€“ Live.

Chaka Khan re-recorded "You Got the Love/Pack'd My Bags" medley for her 2007 album Funk This, with Tony Maiden on guitar.

References

  1. โ†‘ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 505.


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