When Will You Say I Love You

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"When Will You Say I Love You"
Billy Fury When Will You Say I Love You.jpg
Single by Billy Fury
B-side "All I Wanna Do Is Cry"
Released10 May 1963 (1963-05-10) [1]
Recorded26 September 1962 [2]
Studio Decca Studios, London
Genre Pop
Length2:24
Label Decca
Songwriter(s) Alan Fielding
Producer(s) Mike Smith
Billy Fury singles chronology
"Like I've Never Been Gone"
(1963)		"When Will You Say I Love You"
(1963)		"In Summer"
(1963)

"When Will You Say I Love You" is a song by English singer Billy Fury, released as a single in May 1963. It peaked at number 3 on the Record Retailer Top 50. [3]

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Release and reception

"When Will You Say I Love You" was written by Alan Fielding, who had previously written another Fury hit "Last Night Was Made for Love". The B-side, "All I Wanna Do Is Cry" was written by David Battaglia and Johnny Brandon and had originally been released by America R&B singer Billy Bland in January 1962. [4]

Reviewing for Disc , Don Nicholl wrote that "When Will You Say I Love You" "opens as if it's going to be a fast piano concerto. But soon slides into a familiar lazy beat for another hit ballad", with Fury singing "the lyrics romantically with those undertones of Presley which seem to be doing him a lot of good commercially nowadays". [1] In New Record Mirror , it was described as "a good song with a good tune and a very good lyric. Medium tempo, with a different approach that seems fresh for a change". [5]

Track listing

7": Decca / F 11655

  1. "When Will You Say I Love You" – 2:24
  2. "All I Wanna Do Is Cry" – 2:15

Charts

Chart (1963)Peak
position
Ireland (IRMA) [6] 4
UK Disc Top 30 [7] 5
UK Melody Maker Pop 50 [8] 4
UK New Musical Express Top 30 [9] 5
UK Record Retailer Top 50 [3] 3

References

  1. 1 2 "Fury – three TV spots / Disc Date" (PDF). Disc . 11 May 1963. pp. 7, 8. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  2. ↑ "When Will You Say I Love You". www.nic.fi. Archived from the original on 30 April 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Billy Fury | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
  4. ↑ "Billy Bland - All I Wanna Do Is Cry". 45cat. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  5. ↑ "Grand piano backs Billy" (PDF). Record Mirror . 11 May 1963. p. 9. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  6. ↑ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – When Will You Say I Love You". Irish Singles Chart.
  7. ↑ "Top 30" (PDF). Disc . 8 June 1963. p. 3. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  8. ↑ "Pop Fifty". Melody Maker . 8 June 1963.
  9. ↑ "NME Top Thirty". New Musical Express . 7 June 1963.
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