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Where Love Has Gone

Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn • 1964

The title song for the 1964 drama loosely based on the Lana Turner scandal earned Cahn and Van Heusen an Academy Award nomination. The song’s brooding, minor-key intensity — unusual for the duo — perfectly matched the film’s dark subject matter, love curdled into something dangerous and destructive.

Jack Jones and Bobby Darin both recorded it in 1964, each finding a different shade of anguish in Cahn’s most dramatically charged title song.

Notable Recordings

  • Jack Jones
    1964
  • Bobby Darin
    1964

Awards

  • Where Love Has Gone
    • 1964 Academy Award Nomination
    • 1964 Golden Globe Nomination