I Love You (Eddie Fisher album)

I Love You
Studio album by Eddie Fisher
Released	1955
Genre	Traditional pop
Length	32:41
Label	RCA Victor
Eddie Fisher chronology
May I Sing to You? (1954) I Love You (1955) Eddie Fisher Sings Academy Award Winning Songs (1955)

I Love You is a studio album by American singer Eddie Fisher, released in early 1955. ^[1]

Background

By 1955 Eddie Fisher was at the peak of his career, just having some new hits in 1955, including a number-one hit song the previous year and a number 4 album.

Overview

Recorded and released in early 1955, the album consists as the title suggests, of love songs, 8 out of the 12 songs have the word "love" in them. The album, as the one before, was successful, reaching No. 8 on Billboard, ^[2] and No. 10 on Cash Box. ^[3] The album became a bestseller. This was Fisher's last charting studio album for the next decade, until he released Eddie Fisher Today! in 1965. In 1955 he also released another album, but it wasn't successful.

Reception

William Ruhlman of AllMusic wrote that, Hugo Winterhalter was RCA Victor's answer to Capitol's Nelson Riddle, and Decca's Gordon Jenkins, and that he whipped up contemporary arrangements that boasted sprightly rhythms, swirling strings, and the oohing and aching of a vocal chorus here and there, and added "Fisher tended to approach every song the same way, taking a lyric and throttling it to within an inch of its life. He could be more delicate ("The Girl That I Marry") and even playful ("I Can't Give You Anything but Love") when given a chance, but he and Winterhalter had forged a formula they were for the most part unwilling to vary". ^[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"So in Love"	Cole Porter	3:18
2.	"Pretty Baby"	Tony Jackson, Gus Kahn, Egbert Van Alstyne	2:15
3.	"My One and Only Love"	Robert Mellin, Guy Wood	2:51
4.	"I Can't Give You Anything but Love"	Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh	2:14
5.	"The Girl That I Marry"	Irving Berlin	2:43
6.	"I Surrender, Dear"	Harry Barris, Gordon Clifford	3:26
7.	"What Is This Thing Called Love?"	Cole Porter	2:39
8.	"Let's Fall in Love"	Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler	2:18
9.	"My Romance"	Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers	2:48
10.	"Love Somebody"	Alex Kramer, Joan Whitney	2:55
11.	"Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses"	Leslie Cook, John Openshaw	2:44
12.	"Somebody Loves Me"	Buddy DeSylva, George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald	02:12
Total length:			32:31

Charts

Chart (1955)	Peak position
US Billboard Top LPs [5]	8
US Cash Box [3]	10

References

1. Larkin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 2004-IA38. ISBN   978-0-85712-595-8 . Retrieved 2025-07-10.
2. Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums 1955-1996. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 266. ISBN   0898201179 . Retrieved November 5, 2023.
3. Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 120. ISBN   0-8108-2005-6.
4. "I Love You – Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2025-08-03.
5. Whitburn, Joel (1973). Joel Whitburn's Top LP's, 1945-1972. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 52. Retrieved November 5, 2023.