“Love Grown Cold” — recorded by its writer as “Love Gone Cold” — is a country heartbreak song by Johnny Bond, the Oklahoma-born singer, actor, and prolific songwriter. Bond recorded it with his Red River Valley Boys in the early 1940s, though wartime restrictions delayed its release until the middle of the decade.
The lyric is a plain lament of a love that has faded — the warmth gone out of a relationship, leaving the singer alone with the chill of it. That straightforward, melancholy subject was a staple of the country music of Bond’s era.
The song passed into the bluegrass and old-time repertoire.
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