Your Love

CTL-E-5257 · Work · song · 1986

VERIFIED evidence grade of this record

“Your Love” is a 1986 Chicago house song written and first recorded by Chicago singer, songwriter and producer Jamie Principle, who wrote its lyric as a poem for his girlfriend Lisa. Principle's home-recorded demos circulated among Chicago DJs on reel-to-reel tape from the early 1980s, and Frankie Knuckles — then defining the sound of the city's clubs — took the song up, playing his own version at the Power Plant. After a mix by Mark “Hot Rod” Trollan, the small Persona Records gave the song its first public release in April 1986; Trax Records re-released it in 1987 credited to Knuckles, with Principle credited as songwriter, a crediting dispute that shadows the record's history. It charted in the United Kingdom in 1989 and, after Knuckles' death in 2014, re-entered at number 29. In 2026 the Library of Congress selected both Principle's 1986 original and Knuckles' 1987 version for preservation in the National Recording Registry.

Notes

Staged 2026-10-15 under CTL-GOV-006 (Next Slate C); Gate A clear — no existing entity, alias or variant match; Gate B met (2 independent sources; the LOC Registry selection is documented via 5 Magazine reproducing the Library of Congress's own Registry description). CTL treatment: subject of CTL house-music research brief CTL-RB-MUS-000002; named in 30 distinct CTL corpus files (97 mentions) per the 2026-10-15 corpus gap scan — the most-discussed Work among the scan's verified candidates. Statistics carried: UK Singles Chart peak No. 29 (2014 re-entry; Wikipedia, checked 2026-10-15); National Recording Registry selection, 2026, covering both the Persona (1986) and Trax (1987) versions (Library of Congress via 5 Magazine). Photo slot: HELD — see packet §Photo Slots.

Relationships

• Frankie Knuckles — authored by
  Frankie Knuckles produced and arranged the definitive 1987 Trax Records version and was its credited artist (Principle remained the credited songwriter); both the 1986 and 1987 versions were selected for the National Recording Registry in 2026. The schema has no produced_by type; authored_by is staged for Knuckles solely in his credited-artist capacity on the canonical version, with the distinction stated here and in the packet red team.
• Jamie Principle — authored by
  Jamie Principle is the song's composer and lyricist and the artist on its first public release (Persona Records, April 1986); the Library of Congress's Registry description likewise begins the work's history with Principle as its songwriter, composer and producer.

Sources

• Wikipedia, “Your Love (Jamie Principle song)” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Love_(Jamie_Principle_song) (primary source)
• 5 Magazine, “Library of Congress adds Jamie Principle's ‘Your Love’ to National Recording Registry” (reproducing the LOC Registry description) — https://5mag.net/news/jamie-principle-frankie-knuckles-louie-gomez-your-love-national-recording-registry/

Record CTL-E-5257 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: VERIFIED · 2 sources (1 primary) · 2 mapped relationships · CTL research: PPL-001.
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