I Love You (Climax Blues Band song)

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"I Love You"
I love you by climax blues band UK single.png
British single picture sleeve
Single by Climax Blues Band
from the album Flying the Flag
B-side "Horizontalized" [1]
ReleasedFebruary 14, 1981 [1]
Genre Soft rock [2] [3]
Length4:01
Label Warner Bros. Records [1]
Songwriter(s) Derek Holt [1]
Producer(s) John Ryan [1]
Climax Blues Band singles chronology
"Gotta Have More Love"
(1980)		"I Love You"
(1981)		"Darlin'"
(1981)

"I Love You" is a song by the Climax Blues Band, released as a single in 1981, from the album Flying the Flag. [4]

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Chart performance

The song was the group second-biggest hit (after 1976's "Couldn't Get It Right"), entering the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in February 1981, peaking at No. 12 in June, and spending 27 weeks on the chart, [5] and also reached No. 20 on the Adult Contemporary chart. [6]

"I Love You" was the 20th biggest hit of 1981. [7] On the Cash Box Top 100, "I Love You" peaked for two weeks at number 9. [8]

Credits

Nicky Hopkins played grand piano throughout the whole song; string arrangements were provided by David Campbell.

Other versions

"I Love You" song was covered by American band Lazlo Bane for their 2007 album Guilty Pleasures . [15]

It was covered by the band Nine Days for the soundtrack album to the film The New Guy , and by the band Tesla for their 2011 acoustic album Twisted Wires & the Acoustic Sessions .

"I Love You" was also covered by the band the H Factor, and was released as a single, from their 1989 sole eponymous album. Two members of the H Factor, Pete Haycock and Derek Holt, were members of the Climax Blues Band before forming the H Factor with Steve Hunter. Holt also recorded his own version of the song on the 1999 album After the Climax - I Love You.

The song is featured at the end scene of the 2002 Robin Tunney indie-comedy film Cherish

The song is featured in the closing credits of the 2008 Kevin Smith comedy film Zac and Miri Make a Porno

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 I Love You (Credits). Climax Blues Band. Warner Bros. Records. 1981.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "25 Years 1968-1993 - The Climax Chicago Blues Band | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
  3. ↑ Pierre Perrone (2013-11-22). "Pete Haycock: Guitarist with the Climax Blues Band who went on to write film music for John Badham and Franc Roddam - Obituaries - News". The Independent. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
  4. ↑ Climax Blues Band, Flying the Flag Retrieved April 5, 2014
  5. ↑ "Climax Blues Band - Chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
  6. ↑ Climax Blues Band, "I Love You" Chart Positions Retrieved April 5, 2014
  7. ↑ "Top 100 Hits for 1981". Longboredsurfer.com. Archived from the original on 1 January 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  8. 1 2 "Cash Box Top 100 6/20/81". Cashboxmagazine.com. Archived from the original on 22 February 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  9. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 66. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  10. ↑ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 0360." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
  11. ↑ "Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Issue 0350." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
  12. 1 2 "I Love You (song by Climax Blues Band)". Music VF.com. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
  13. ↑ "Top 100 Hits of 1981/Top 100 Songs of 1981". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  14. ↑ "Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1981". Cashboxmagazine.com. Archived from the original on 18 September 2012. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  15. ↑ "Lazlo Bane's Guilty Pleasures". cdbaby.com. Retrieved 2017-01-10.


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