![]() ![]() The new mixes work well, although the 1991 mixes remain the best. Six years on, it has been extensively remixed by the Rhythm Masters and David Morales & Frankie Knuckles. Upon the 1997 remix, Alan Jones from Music Week commented, "A brilliant marriage of two different records, the Source featuring Candi Staton's "You Got The Love" was a truly inspired amalgam, well deserving its top five status in 1991. It's an inspired combination of uplifting gospel vocals and Jamie Principle's proto-House classic ' Your Love', is currently sitting comfortably in the Top 40, and has a chequered history to match Black Box's ' Ride On Time'." 'You Got the Love' by the Source featuring Candi Staton, formerly known as 'Love/Rock', pays testimony to both those principles. The best ideas have always been the most breathtakingly simple and usually caused the most consternation. Mandi James from NME wrote, " Bootlegs have kept the dancefloor boiling, provided healthy competition for the influx of white labels and given inspiration in the face of Technotronic megamixes. On 19 January 1991, Music Week named "You Got the Love" Pick of the Week. The Now Voyager Remix of the song was used for the theme tune of live Football League coverage on Sky Sports until the start of the 2014–15 season. The song was used on the series finale of the series Sex and the City, and also the series finale of Gossip Girl. The "Original Bootleg Radio Mix" of the track was featured in the film Layer Cake in the club when Sidney talks to the film's protagonist as he looks on at Sidney's girlfriend. The 2006 mix also featured more lyrics than the first two versions. ![]() This time the rights to the record were picked up by EMI's Positiva label (also the label the Shapeshifters were signed to), who scored another top ten hit, when the track reached number seven. It was remixed again in 2006 by Now Voyager, and this new version was called the "New Voyager Mix" (instead of "Now"), and was back with further new mixes by the Shapeshifters amongst others. This time the record reached number three, the song's highest position. It was re-issued in 1997 by React Music Limited in a new remixed version called the "Now Voyager Mix". The DJ Eren "Original Bootleg" mix was released by John Truelove's record label in 1991 and reached number four in the UK Singles Chart. This bootleg release was a studio recording of Eren Abdullah mixing the two pieces of vinyl together. The Candi Staton a cappella version was originally mixed over an instrumental version of the Frankie Knuckles/ Jamie Principle house song " Your Love". The producers of the video had selected the song for her to sing, but as they had no funds to pay her, they donated half of the copyright and publishing to Staton. It was only later that she realised she had performed the song years earlier for the documentary. Staton said she couldn't remember having recorded a song called "You Got the Love". The original Candi Staton track had been recorded for a direct-to-video 1980s documentary about an obese man who was trying to lose weight. British DJ Simon Harris was the first person to discover and license the song in 1986 when he was looking for tracks to release on his newly formed Music of Life label with DJ Froggy, Harris then took the track to Morgan Khan, the distributor of the new label, the track was licensed and released on Khan's StreetSounds Streetwave label. Stephens, Arnecia Michelle Harris and John Bellamy. The original version is a soul/ disco/ gospel track, written by Anthony B. Candi Staton talking to The Guardian about the song. And I said, 'What song? I haven't released any song.'" "They were calling my house saying I had a No.
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