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"I Love You" is a song by the Climax Blues Band, released as a single in 1980, from the album Flying the Flag.[4]

"I Love You"
Single by Climax Blues Band
from the album Flying the Flag
B-side	"Horizontalized"[1]
Released	February 14, 1981[1]
Genre	Soft rock[2][3]
Length	4:01
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)

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 electric 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.[14]

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.

In popular culture

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

References

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