I'll Never Stop Loving You (1955 song)

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"I'll Never Stop Loving You" is a popular music song, with music written by Nicholas Brodzsky and lyrics by Sammy Cahn for the 1955 film Love Me or Leave Me . The song was published in 1955.

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The recording by Doris Day was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 40505. [1] It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on July 23, 1955. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #13; on the Best Seller chart, at #15; on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached #93 (a misleading figure, because the top-100 list was started by Billboard after the peak of the song's popularity). [2]

The song was nominated for the 1955 Academy Award for Best Original Song but lost to "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" from the film of the same name.

Other recordings

The song was featured in the popular tv series The Saint , starring Roger Moore, in the episode "The Saint Sees It Through", and was sung by co-star Margit Saad.

  1. ↑ Columbia Records in the 40500 to 40999 series
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2000-11-01). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (7th Rev. ed.). New York: Watson-Guptill Publications. ISBN   978-0-8230-7690-1.
  3. ↑ "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
  4. ↑ "allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
  5. ↑ "45worlds.com". 45worlds.com. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Discogs.com". Discogs.com. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Discogs.com". Discogs.com. Retrieved December 6, 2017.


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