I'm in Love (Bobby Womack song)

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"I'm in Love"
Single by Aretha Franklin
from the album Let Me in Your Life
B-side "Oh Baby"
Released1974
Recorded1973
Genre Soul
Length2:48
Label Atlantic
Songwriter(s) Bobby Womack
Producer(s) Aretha Franklin, Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler
Aretha Franklin singles chronology
"Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)"
(1973)
"I'm in Love"
(1974)
"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing"
(1974)

"I'm in Love" is a song written by Bobby Womack. It was first recorded by Wilson Pickett in 1967, which gave him a top-ten R&B hit on Billboard's chart in 1968, peaking at number 4 as well as peaking at number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100. [1]

Contents

Background

"I'm in Love" was written in response to some of the criticism he had been receiving after marrying the widow of the recently deceased Sam Cooke.

Cover versions

Personnel

Wilson Pickett version [3] [4]
Bobby Womack version [3]
Aretha Franklin version [8] [3] [9]

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