You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
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"You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" is the title of a 1966 hit recorded by British
singer Dusty Springfield
which proved to be her career record reaching #1 UK and #4 US: the song subsequently charted in the UK via remakes by Elvis Presley
(#9/ 1971), Guys 'n' Dolls (#5/ 1976) and Denise Welch
(#23/ 1995) with Presley's version also reaching #11 US in 1970. The song had originally been written with Italian lyrics and entitled "Io che non vivo (senza te)" and as such was a #1 hit in Italy for Pino Donaggio
in 1965: as "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" the song reached #6 in Italy in 1983 via a remake by Wall Street Crash a vocal octet
led by Keith Strachan
. "En Koskaan", a Fennecized
rendition subsequent to Springfield's English-language success with the song, was a Top Ten hit in Finland
for Kristina Hautala
in 1966-67.
- and his team partner Jody Miller
: the song took seventh place at Sanremo and as recorded by Donaggio reached #1 in Italy in March 1965. Dusty Springfield, a participant at Sanremo that year, was in the audience when Donaggio and Miller performed the song and despite having no awareness of the lyrics' meaning the song moved Springfield to tears. Springfield obtained an acetate recording of Donaggio's song but allowed a year to go by before actively pursuing the idea of herself recording an English version.
On 9 March 1966 Springfield had an instrumental track of Donaggio's composition recorded at Philips
Studio Marble Arch
: the session personnel included guitarist Big Jim Sullivan
and drummer Bobby Graham
. Springfield still lacked an English lyric to record: eventually Springfield's friend Vicki Wickham
, the producer of Ready Steady Go!
, would write the required English lyric with her own friend Simon Napier-Bell
who was the manager of the Yardbirds
. Neither Wickham nor Napier-Bell had any discernible experience as songwriters: according to Napier-Bell, he and Wickham were dining out when she mentioned to him that Springfield hoped to get an English lyric for Donaggio's song and the two lightheartedly took up the challenge of writing the lyric themselves: "We went back to [Wickham]'s flat and started working on it. We wanted to go to a trendy disco so we had about an hour to write it. We wrote the chorus and then we wrote the verse in a taxi to wherever we were going." Neither Wickham or Napier-Bell had any understanding of the Italian lyrics of the original song: according to Wickham they attempted to write their own lyric for an anti-love song to be called "I Don't Love You"; when that original idea proved unproductive it was adjusted first to "You Don't Love Me" and then "You Don't Have to Love Me" which was finalized as "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" to fit the song's melody.
Springfield recorded her vocal the next day: unhappy with the acoustics in the recording booth she eventually moved into a stairwell to record. Springfield was not satisfied with her vocal until she'd recorded forty-seven takes.
Released 31 March 1966, the single
release of Springfield's recording became a huge hit and remains one of the songs most identified with her. When Dusty died the song was featured on Now 42 as a tribute to her.
The song hit #1 in the UK,and #4 in the USA. The song proved so popular in the USA that Springfield's 1965 album Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty
was released there with a slightly different track listing, and titled after the hit single (the B side of the US single, "Little by Little" was issued in the UK as a separate A side and reached #17 there). In 2004, the song made the Rolling Stone
list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
at #491.
, Patrizio Buanne
and Russell Watson
. In October 1965 Richard Anthony
recorded a French rendering of "Io che non vivo (senza te)": "Jamais je ne vivrai sans toi", which served as the title cut of an album release. Also in 1965 a Catalan rendering of "Io che non vivo" entitled "Jo no puc viure sense tu" was recorded by Renata.
Most international versions of the song were subsequent to Dusty Springfield's 1966 success with "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" and reference that version's lyrics rather than the Italian original.
One of the earliest non-English renderings of "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" was the Finnish "En koskaan" recorded by Kristina Hautala
on May 24 1966: entering the Finnish Top Ten in November 1966 - in effect succeeding Springfield's version which had peaked at #6 in Finland earlier that month - "En koskaan" spent eleven weeks in the Top Ten peaking at #6. Subsequently "En koskaan" was remade by Lea Laven
on her 1978 album release Aamulla Rakkaani Näin and also by Kurre on his 1979 album Jäit Sateen Taa.
Other renderings of "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" include that in German: "Alle meine Träume" - (recorded by) Peter Beil, also Corry Brokken
and also Ingrid Peters
; Turkish: "Anlamazdın" - Ayla Dikmen
; Danish: "Du Kan Gi' Mig Hele Verden" - Grethe Ingmann
; Dutch: "Geloof me" - André Hazes
; German: "Ich Sage, Wat Ich Meine" - Trude Herr; Czech: "Jarní Víra" - Laďka Kozderková; Danish: "Jeg har ikke brug for løfter" - Ulla Pia; Croatian, both: "Moju ljubav nisi hteo" - Nada Knežević and "Nemoj reći da me voliš" - Sanjalice; German: "Unser Traum Darf Niemals Sterben" - Angelika Milster; Swedish: "Vackra sagor är så korta" - Marianne Kock, also Jan Höiland and also Anne-Lie Rydé
; and Spanish: "Yo que no vivo sin tí" - Iva Zanicchi
. "Yo que no vivo sin tí" was remade by Luis Miguel
on his 1987 album Soy Como Quiero Ser
: this version ranked at #26 on the Hot Latin Tracks in Billboard.
This song was covered by the late Singaporean
singer/songwriter
/lyricist
Su Yin (舒雲) in Mandarin Chinese language with Chinese
lyrics written by himself and given the title name of 祝福你, appearing on his LP album 黃昏放牛＊一片青青的草地, and released by EMI Columbia Records
in 1967. While in 1969, Hong Kong
female singer Frances Yip
(葉麗儀) recorded the song in alternate Mandarin Chinese and English language mode under a title name of 誰令你變心/You Don't Have To Say You Love Me, on her EP album 不了情 with the local Life Records.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
singer Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienSources use both Isabel and Isobel as the spelling of her second name. OBE , known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s...
which proved to be her career record reaching #1 UK and #4 US: the song subsequently charted in the UK via remakes by Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
(#9/ 1971), Guys 'n' Dolls (#5/ 1976) and Denise Welch
Denise Welch
Jacqueline Denise Healy is an English actress, dancer and television presenter.-Early life:Denise Welch was born in Ebchester, County Durham, to father Vin and mother Ann and has a younger sister Debbie...
(#23/ 1995) with Presley's version also reaching #11 US in 1970. The song had originally been written with Italian lyrics and entitled "Io che non vivo (senza te)" and as such was a #1 hit in Italy for Pino Donaggio
Pino Donaggio
Giuseppe "Pino" Donaggio is an Italian composer.Born in Burano , into a family of musicians, Donaggio began studying violin at the age of ten, first at the Benedetto Marcello conservatory in Venice, followed by the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan...
in 1965: as "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" the song reached #6 in Italy in 1983 via a remake by Wall Street Crash a vocal octet
Octet
-Music:* Octet , ensemble consisting of eight instruments or voices, or composition written for such an ensemble* Octet , 1793 composition by Ludwig van Beethoven* Octet , 1825 composition by Felix Mendelssohn...
led by Keith Strachan
Keith Strachan
Keith Strachan is a British composer and theatre director. He co-wrote the song "Mistletoe and Wine", which got Cliff Richard the 1988 Christmas number one...
. "En Koskaan", a Fennecized
Finnish language
Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...
rendition subsequent to Springfield's English-language success with the song, was a Top Ten hit in Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
for Kristina Hautala
Kristina Hautala
Kristina Hautala was a top pop music star in Finland in the late 1960s.-Beginnings/ stardom:Born in Stockholm of Finnish descent, Hautala was still living in her native city when she made her recording debut with "En koskaan" a Finnish rendering of "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" recorded May...
in 1966-67.
Background
"Io che non vivo (senza te)" - "I, who can't live (without you)" - was introduced at the 1965 Sanremo Festival by Pino Donaggio - who'd co-written the song with Vito PallaviciniVito Pallavicini
Vito Pallavicini was an Italian lyricist.Born in Vigevano, he wrote numerous songs, during his career for Adriano Celentano , Caterina Caselli and many others. He died at the age of 83....
- and his team partner Jody Miller
Jody Miller
Jody Brooks is an American country music singer. Born as Myrna Joy Miller, she was born in Phoenix, Arizona and raised in Oklahoma.-Career:...
: the song took seventh place at Sanremo and as recorded by Donaggio reached #1 in Italy in March 1965. Dusty Springfield, a participant at Sanremo that year, was in the audience when Donaggio and Miller performed the song and despite having no awareness of the lyrics' meaning the song moved Springfield to tears. Springfield obtained an acetate recording of Donaggio's song but allowed a year to go by before actively pursuing the idea of herself recording an English version.
On 9 March 1966 Springfield had an instrumental track of Donaggio's composition recorded at Philips
Philips
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , more commonly known as Philips, is a multinational Dutch electronics company....
Studio Marble Arch
Marble Arch
Marble Arch is a white Carrara marble monument that now stands on a large traffic island at the junction of Oxford Street, Park Lane, and Edgware Road, almost directly opposite Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park in London, England...
: the session personnel included guitarist Big Jim Sullivan
Big Jim Sullivan
Big Jim Sullivan is an English musician, whose career started in 1959. He is best known as a session guitarist. In the 1960s and 1970s, Sullivan was one of the most "in-demand" studio musicians in the UK, and performed in more than one thousand charting singles over his career...
and drummer Bobby Graham
Bobby Graham
Bobby Graham was an English session drummer, composer, arranger and record producer. Shel Talmy, who produced The Kinks, David Bowie and The Who, described Graham as "the greatest drummer the UK has ever produced."...
. Springfield still lacked an English lyric to record: eventually Springfield's friend Vicki Wickham
Vicki Wickham
Vicki Heather Wickham is an English talent manager, entertainment producer, and songwriter.-Career:She is most known for producing the 60s British television show Ready Steady Go!, and managing well known pop/soul acts Labelle and Dusty Springfield....
, the producer of Ready Steady Go!
Ready Steady Go!
Ready Steady Go! or simply RSG! was one of the UK's first rock/pop music TV programmes. It was conceived by Elkan Allan, head of Rediffusion TV. Allan was assisted by record producer/talent manager Vicki Wickham, who became the producer. It was broadcast from August 1963 until December 1966...
, would write the required English lyric with her own friend Simon Napier-Bell
Simon Napier-Bell
Simon Napier-Bell has undertaken many jobs in the music industry, including bandboy, manager, producer, songwriter, journalist and author and gourmet...
who was the manager of the Yardbirds
The Yardbirds
- Current :* Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar, backing vocals * Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals * Ben King - lead guitar * David Smale - bass, backing vocals...
. Neither Wickham nor Napier-Bell had any discernible experience as songwriters: according to Napier-Bell, he and Wickham were dining out when she mentioned to him that Springfield hoped to get an English lyric for Donaggio's song and the two lightheartedly took up the challenge of writing the lyric themselves: "We went back to [Wickham]'s flat and started working on it. We wanted to go to a trendy disco so we had about an hour to write it. We wrote the chorus and then we wrote the verse in a taxi to wherever we were going." Neither Wickham or Napier-Bell had any understanding of the Italian lyrics of the original song: according to Wickham they attempted to write their own lyric for an anti-love song to be called "I Don't Love You"; when that original idea proved unproductive it was adjusted first to "You Don't Love Me" and then "You Don't Have to Love Me" which was finalized as "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" to fit the song's melody.
Springfield recorded her vocal the next day: unhappy with the acoustics in the recording booth she eventually moved into a stairwell to record. Springfield was not satisfied with her vocal until she'd recorded forty-seven takes.
Released 31 March 1966, the single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
release of Springfield's recording became a huge hit and remains one of the songs most identified with her. When Dusty died the song was featured on Now 42 as a tribute to her.
The song hit #1 in the UK,and #4 in the USA. The song proved so popular in the USA that Springfield's 1965 album Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty
Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty
Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty is the second studio album by singer Dusty Springfield, released on Philips Records in the UK in 1965. Springfield's 1964 debut album, A Girl Called Dusty, sold well enough to make her Philips Records' top selling female artist. For this, her second album, Philips...
was released there with a slightly different track listing, and titled after the hit single (the B side of the US single, "Little by Little" was issued in the UK as a separate A side and reached #17 there). In 2004, the song made the Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" was the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone, issue number 963, published December 9, 2004, a year after the magazine published its list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"....
at #491.
English-language cover versions
"You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" has been recorded by many artists, including:- Elvis PresleyElvis PresleyElvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
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- Jessica Andersson
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- #28 R&BChartA chart is a graphical representation of data, in which "the data is represented by symbols, such as bars in a bar chart, lines in a line chart, or slices in a pie chart"...
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* #78 "Billboard" Hot 100Billboard Hot 100The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
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- Guys 'n' Dolls - #5 UK/ 3-20-1976
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live performance single on the iTunes Music Store in 2008) - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
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whose 1995 remake was a double A-side hitA-side and B-sideA-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...
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- Jerry ValeJerry ValeJerry Vale is an American singer.-Career:In high school, in order to make some money, he took a job shining shoes in a barbershop in New York City. He sang while he shined shoes, and his boss liked the sound so well that he paid for music lessons for the boy...
- Wall Street Crash, a vocal octet led by Keith StrachanKeith StrachanKeith Strachan is a British composer and theatre director. He co-wrote the song "Mistletoe and Wine", which got Cliff Richard the 1988 Christmas number one...
had a #6 hit in Italy with "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" in the summer of 1983 after competing with the song at FestivalbarFestivalbarThe Festivalbar was an Italian singing competition that took place in the most important Italian squares during summer, such as the Piazza del Duomo, Milan; the first time it was held was in 1964... - In 1983, The ShadowsThe ShadowsThe Shadows are a British pop group with a total of 69 UK hit-charted singles: 35 as 'The Shadows' and 34 as 'Cliff Richard and the Shadows', from the 1950s to the 2000s. Cliff Richard in casual conversation with the British rock press frequently refers to the Shadows by their nickname: 'The Shads'...
recorded an instrumental version of "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me".
International cover versions
The Italian original "Io che non vivo" has been remade by MilvaMilva
Maria Ilva Biolcati , known as Milva, is an Italian singer, actress and television personality. She is also known as 'La Rossa', , due to the colour of her hair, and additionally as the 'Panther of Goro', which stems from the Italian press having nicknamed the three most popular Italian female...
, Patrizio Buanne
Patrizio Buanne
Patrizio is an Italian singer baritone, songwriter, producer. He was previously signed with Globe Records, a division of Universal Music, but has recently signed a global record deal with Warner Music Entertainment.-Biography:Early lifePatrizio Buanne spent his childhood living and traveling from...
and Russell Watson
Russell Watson
Russell Watson is an English tenor who has released singles and albums of both operatic-style and pop songs. The self-styled "People's Tenor" had been singing since he was a child, and became known after performing at a working men's club...
. In October 1965 Richard Anthony
Richard Anthony
Richard Sidney Anthony was an Irish politician. A Linotype operator by profession, Anthony stood unsuccessfully for election at the 1923 general election. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as an Labour Party Teachta Dála for the Cork Borough constituency at the June 1927 general election. He...
recorded a French rendering of "Io che non vivo (senza te)": "Jamais je ne vivrai sans toi", which served as the title cut of an album release. Also in 1965 a Catalan rendering of "Io che non vivo" entitled "Jo no puc viure sense tu" was recorded by Renata.
Most international versions of the song were subsequent to Dusty Springfield's 1966 success with "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" and reference that version's lyrics rather than the Italian original.
One of the earliest non-English renderings of "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" was the Finnish "En koskaan" recorded by Kristina Hautala
Kristina Hautala
Kristina Hautala was a top pop music star in Finland in the late 1960s.-Beginnings/ stardom:Born in Stockholm of Finnish descent, Hautala was still living in her native city when she made her recording debut with "En koskaan" a Finnish rendering of "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" recorded May...
on May 24 1966: entering the Finnish Top Ten in November 1966 - in effect succeeding Springfield's version which had peaked at #6 in Finland earlier that month - "En koskaan" spent eleven weeks in the Top Ten peaking at #6. Subsequently "En koskaan" was remade by Lea Laven
Lea Laven
Lea Laven is a Finnish pop singer....
on her 1978 album release Aamulla Rakkaani Näin and also by Kurre on his 1979 album Jäit Sateen Taa.
Other renderings of "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" include that in German: "Alle meine Träume" - (recorded by) Peter Beil, also Corry Brokken
Corry Brokken
Corry Brokken is a former Dutch singer.Brokken won the 1957 Eurovision Song Contest, representing the Netherlands singing "Net als toen"...
and also Ingrid Peters
Ingrid Peters
Ingrid Peters is a German singer.She represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 held in Bergen. Her song, Über die Brücke geh'n was placed eight. Peters had made previous attempts to represent Germany. In 1979 she performed a song called Du bist nicht frei and in 1983 was runner-up in...
; Turkish: "Anlamazdın" - Ayla Dikmen
Ayla Dikmen
Ayla Dikmen was a Turkish singer.-Biography:Born in Kütahya on 25 March 1944, Dikmen began her professional singing career with Yavuz Özışık. She met Şerif Yüzbaşıoğlu behind the scenes at a radio program and joined his orchestra under the stage name "Parla Nur"...
; Danish: "Du Kan Gi' Mig Hele Verden" - Grethe Ingmann
Grethe Ingmann
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; Dutch: "Geloof me" - André Hazes
André Hazes
André Gerardus Hazes was a Dutch singer in a genre called levenslied which is a form of emotional folk music about everyday life sung in the Dutch language. André Hazes was one of the most successful singers in this genre...
; German: "Ich Sage, Wat Ich Meine" - Trude Herr; Czech: "Jarní Víra" - Laďka Kozderková; Danish: "Jeg har ikke brug for løfter" - Ulla Pia; Croatian, both: "Moju ljubav nisi hteo" - Nada Knežević and "Nemoj reći da me voliš" - Sanjalice; German: "Unser Traum Darf Niemals Sterben" - Angelika Milster; Swedish: "Vackra sagor är så korta" - Marianne Kock, also Jan Höiland and also Anne-Lie Rydé
Anne-Lie Rydé
Anne-Lie Rydé is a Swedish pop and rock singer.Rydé grew up on Lidingö, but moved to Gothenburg in 1976. There she played with the Gothenburg-based band Extra from 1978 to 1983...
; and Spanish: "Yo que no vivo sin tí" - Iva Zanicchi
Iva Zanicchi
Iva Zanicchi is an Italian pop singer.Iva Zanicchi's career began in 1962 at the Castrocaro Festival of New Voices, where she gained third place. She won the Sanremo song festival in 1967 with Non pensare a me, in 1969 with Zingara and again in 1974 with Ciao cara, come stai?...
. "Yo que no vivo sin tí" was remade by Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri is a Mexican singer. He is widely known only by the name Luis Miguel and is often referred to as "El Sol de México"...
on his 1987 album Soy Como Quiero Ser
Soy Como Quiero Ser
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: this version ranked at #26 on the Hot Latin Tracks in Billboard.
This song was covered by the late Singaporean
Singapore
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singer/songwriter
Songwriter
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/lyricist
Lyricist
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Su Yin (舒雲) in Mandarin Chinese language with Chinese
Chinese language
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lyrics written by himself and given the title name of 祝福你, appearing on his LP album 黃昏放牛＊一片青青的草地, and released by EMI Columbia Records
Columbia Graphophone Company
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in 1967. While in 1969, Hong Kong
Hong Kong
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female singer Frances Yip
Frances Yip
Frances Yip Lai-yee is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer. She is best known for performing many of the theme songs for television series produced by TVB in the 1980s and early 1990s....
(葉麗儀) recorded the song in alternate Mandarin Chinese and English language mode under a title name of 誰令你變心/You Don't Have To Say You Love Me, on her EP album 不了情 with the local Life Records.
See also
- List of number-one singles from the 1960s (UK)
- List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1970 (U.S.)