Love Me (Yvonne Elliman album)

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Love Me
Love Me Yvonne Ellian album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released1977
Studio Total Experience Recording Studios
(Hollywood, California) United Western Recorders
(Los Angeles, California)
Genre
Label RSO
Producer Freddie Perren
Yvonne Elliman chronology
Rising Sun
(1975)
Love Me
(1977)
Night Flight
(1978)

Love Me is the fourth album by American pop star Yvonne Elliman produced by Freddie Perren and released by RSO Records in 1977. This album features a cover of Barbara Lewis' tune, "Hello Stranger", the title cut, which is another cover of The Bee Gees' tune and "I Can't Get You Outa My Mind".

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Beatrice Verdi and Christine Yarian; except where indicated

  1. "Love Me" (Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb)
  2. "Hello Stranger" (Barbara Lewis)
  3. "I Can't Get You Outa My Mind"
  4. "I Know" (Yvonne Elliman)
  5. "Without You (There Ain't No Love at All)"
  6. "Good Sign" (Carole Bayer Sager, David Wolfert, Melissa Manchester)
  7. "She'll Be the Home"
  8. "(I Don't Know Why) I Keep Hanging On"
  9. "I'd Do It Again" (Verdi, Yarian, Gary Lohman)
  10. "Uphill (Peace of Mind)" (Frederick Knight)

Personnel

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