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"Save Your Love for Me" is a jazz ballad composed by Buddy Johnson in 1955 that was first recorded that same year by Buddy Johnson and His Orchestra with vocals by Floyd Ryland. [1] [ unreliable source? ]
The 1962 recording by Nancy Wilson on the album Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley [2] brought the song to wider notice, and it has become part of the jazz standards repertoire. [3]
Etta Jones, who had sung with Buddy Johnson in 1944, made the song the title track of her 1981 album Save Your Love for Me and re-recorded it for her 1998 album My Buddy: Etta Jones Sings the Songs of Buddy Johnson . [4]