[3] Released during a time that Warwick's chart fortunes were at an ebb after moving to Warner Bros. Records in 1972, this Philadelphia soul single was a rare mid-1970s success for the singer.

Sung as a duet with Spinners main lead singer Bobby Smith and the Spinners,[3] who were one of the most popular groups of the decade, the song became Warwick's first ever single to reach number one on the US Billboard Hot 100[4] and also became her highest-charting R&B record of the 1970s, reaching number two on that chart, behind Barry White's "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" (itself a Hot 100 number-one single).

Bell and his writing team at Atlantic Records wrote "Then Came you" as a duet for Warwick and the Spinner.

[a] At the time, Bell was also producing The Spinners' next album titled New and Improved (released in December 1974).

[1][3] Spinners member Philippé Wynne takes over the lead vocals at the very end of the song,[3] as he did on another one of the group's big hits, "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love".