You Can't Hide Love

"You Can't Hide Love" is a single by soul group Creative Source released in 1973 on Sussex Records. The song reached No. 48 on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart.[1]

For the Carmen McRae album, see Can't Hide Love (album).
"You Can't Hide Love"
Single by Creative Source
from the album Creative Source
B-side"Lovesville"
Released1973
Recorded1973
GenreR&B
Length3:22
LabelSussex
Songwriter(s)Skip Scarborough
Producer(s)Michael Stokes
Creative Source singles chronology
"You Can't Hide Love"
(1973)		 "You're Too Good To Be True"
(1973)

Overview

"You Can't Hide Love" was produced by Michael Stokes and composed by Skip Scarborough. The single's B-side was "Lovesville". Both songs came from Creative Source's 1973 self-titled debut studio album.[2]

Charts
Chart (1973) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles[1] 48

Earth, Wind & Fire version
"Can't Hide Love"
Single by Earth, Wind & Fire
from the album Gratitude
B-side"Gratitude"
Released1976
Recorded1975
GenreR&B, funk
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Skip Scarborough
Producer(s)Maurice White, Charles Stepney
Earth, Wind & Fire singles chronology
"Sing a Song"
(1975)		 "Can't Hide Love"
(1976)		 "Getaway"
(1976)

Earth, Wind & Fire covered the song under the title of Can't Hide Love. This tune was released as a single in 1976 by Columbia Records and reached No. 11 on the US Billboard Hot Soul Songs chart and No. 39 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.[3] [4][5][6]

Overview

EWF's version was produced by Maurice White and Charles Stepney. The single's B-side was "Gratitude." Both songs came from the band's 1975 studio album Gratitude.[4]

Critical reception

Record World said that it achieves "just the right mix of vocal harmonies."[7] Within his review of Gratitude Alex Henderson of Allmusic called Can't Hide Love "haunting".[8]

Jason Elias of Allmusic wrote in his review of the song "While on the face this seems like a well-meaning plea, "Can't Hide Love" is filled with teasing, taunts, and a sense of bitterness that gives the song its emotional weight. Maurice White's insinuating lead was great enough, and near the end of the song Phillip Bailey does some great vocal runs. Bailey's riffs near the fade became the rite of passage for all fledging high tenor/falsettos."[9]

Accolades

"Can't Hide Love" was Grammy nominated in the category of Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s).[10]

During 2008 Prince gave a live performance of "Can't Hide Love" on stage at the Hotel Gansevoort in Manhattan, New York.[11]

Samples

EWF's rendition has also been sampled by artists such as Raheem DeVaughn on the song "Guess Who Loves You More" from his 2005 album The Love Experience, Drake on his 2009 tune Beautiful Life and Rick Ross on the song Capone Suite from the soundtrack of the 2018 feature film Superfly.[12] Esperanza Spalding quoted part of the song in her arrangement of "Jazz Ain't Nothin But Soul" that appears on her 2012 album Radio Music Society. In 2021, the song was sampled by Lucky Daye on his song “You Want My Love” which features Earth, Wind and Fire.

Charts
Chart (1976) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 39
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles 11

Other cover versions

The artists who have covered "You Can't Hide Love" include Victor Wooten, Nancy Wilson, Saul Williams and Wayman Tisdale, as well as Najee, Jaye P. Morgan, Dionne Warwick, John Tropea, Kenny Thomas, Bobby Tench with Hummingbird and Carmen McRae and D'Angelo.[12][3]

References
  1. "Billboard Hot Soul Singles". Vol. 85, no. 43. Billboard. October 27, 1973. p. 22 – via Google Books. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  2. Creative Source: You Can't Hide Love. Sussex Records. 1973.
  3. "You Can't Hide Love by Creative Source". secondhandsongs.com.
  4. Earth, Wind & Fire: Can't Hide Love. Columbia Records. 1976.
  5. "Earth, Wind & Fire: Can't Hide Love (Hot Soul Songs)". billboard.com. Billboard.
  6. "Earth, Wind & Fire: Can't Hide Love (Hot 100)". billboard.com. Billboard.
  7. "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. March 20, 1976. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  8. Henderson, Alex. "Earth, Wind & Fire: Gratitude". allmusic.com. Allmusic.
  9. Elias, Jason. "Earth, Wind & Fire: Can't Hide Love". allmusic.com. Allmusic.
  10. "Earth, Wind & Fire". grammy.com. The Recording Academy. 23 November 2020.
  11. O' Donnell, Kevin; R. Weingarten, Christopher (October 14, 2008). "Prince Keeps the Funk Flowing at Tiny, Star-Packed New York Shows". rollingstone.com. Rolling Stone.
  12. "Earth, Wind & Fire: Can't Hide Love". genius.com.
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