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"Just Say I Love Her" ("Just Say I Love Him" when recorded by a female singer) is a popular song, adapted from the Neapolitan song "Dicitencello vuje".[1]^{[circular reference]} The original music was written by Neapolitan composer Rodolfo Falvo (Naples, 7 July 1873 – Naples, 4 December 1937) in 1930;[2] arrangement in US by Jack Val and Jimmy Dale; the original Neapolitan lyrics by Enzo Fusco, and English lyrics by Martin Kalmanoff and Sam Ward.[3]

A recording by Johnny Desmond was made on January 20, 1950, and released by MGM (catalog number 10758). It reached #24 on the Billboard chart. Vic Damone's 1950 recording of the song reached #13 on the Billboard chart.[4]

Recorded versions

• Johnny Desmond (1950)
• Frankie Avalon
• Tony Bennett (1950)
• Vic Damone (1950)
• Eddie Fisher
• Connie Francis - for her album More Italian Favorites (1960).[5]
• Timi Yuro - Hurt!!!!!!! (1961).[6]
• Sumo
• Robert Goulet - My Love Forgive Me (1964).[7]
• Dean Martin - for his album Dino: Italian Love Songs (1962)
• Al Martino - The Exciting Voice of Al Martino (1962).[8]
• Cliff Richard - When in Rome (1965)
• Artie Shaw
• Nina Simone on the 1961 album Forbidden Fruit and the 1993 album A Single Woman
• Jerry Vale - I Have But One Heart (1962).[9]
• Lou Monte (1958)
• Steve Lawrence - Sings of Love and Sad Young Men (1967).[10]
• Engelbert Humperdinck - We Made It Happen (1970).[11]
• Jimmy Roselli
• Tito Schipa[12]
• Giuseppe di Stefano[13]
• Luciano Pavarotti[14]
• Dmitri Hvorostovsky - Passione di Napoli (2001)[15]
• Nicolae Herlea – Recital De Canțonete.[16]
• Xiu Xiu - Nina (2013).
• Christian Ketter – Beloved: Live in Recital (2014).[17]
• Franco Corelli[18]
• Sergio Franchi covered this Neapolitan favorite on his 1963 Billboard Top 200 (at 66th place) album Our Man from Italy; also on his 1965 album Live From The Cocoanut Grove; and on his 1976 album 20 Magnificent Songs. He recorded it in Italian, and in Italian/English combination.

References

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