<P> `` Ai n't No Love in the Heart of the City '' is a 1974 R&B song , written by Michael Price and Dan Walsh , and first recorded by Bobby Bland for the ABC Dunhill album Dreamer . While Bland scored a minor hit with the song , landing in the top ten of the R&B charts , it is perhaps best known through cover versions and samples . While it is ostensibly a love song , some critics have also heard it as a lament on urban poverty and hopelessness ; the cover version by reggae singer Al Brown even changes most of the lyrics to magnify this emphasis . The song is featured on the soundtracks to the 2009 film Fighting and the 2011 crime drama The Lincoln Lawyer . </P>
<P> `` Ai n't No Love in the Heart of the City '' is a 1974 R&B song , written by Michael Price and Dan Walsh , and first recorded by Bobby Bland for the ABC Dunhill album Dreamer . While Bland scored a minor hit with the song , landing in the top ten of the R&B charts , it is perhaps best known through cover versions and samples . While it is ostensibly a love song , some critics have also heard it as a lament on urban poverty and hopelessness ; the cover version by reggae singer Al Brown even changes most of the lyrics to magnify this emphasis . The song is featured on the soundtracks to the 2009 film Fighting and the 2011 crime drama The Lincoln Lawyer . </P>
who wrote ai n 't no love in the heart of the city
who wrote ai n 't no love in the heart of the city
Michael Price Dan Walsh
Michael Price Dan Walsh