I Love You (Climax Blues Band song)

"I Love You" is a song by the Climax Blues Band, released as a single in 1980, from the album Flying the Flag.[4] It was their 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] It ended up being the 20th biggest hit of 1981.[6] On the Cash Box Top 100, "I Love You" peaked for two weeks at number 9.[7] The song also reached No. 20 on the Adult Contemporary chart.[8]

"I Love You"
Single by Climax Blues Band
from the album Flying the Flag
B-side"Horizontalized"[1]
ReleasedFebruary 14, 1981[1]
GenreSoft rock[2][3]
Length4:01
LabelWarner 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

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.

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

References
  1. I Love You (Credits). Climax Blues Band. Warner Bros. Records. 1980.CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "25 Years 1968-1993 - The Climax Chicago Blues Band | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
  3. Pierre Perrone (2013-11-22). "Pete Haycock: Guitarist with the Climax Blues Band who went on to write film music for John Badham and Franc Roddam - Obituaries - News". The Independent. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
  4. Climax Blues Band, Flying the Flag Retrieved April 5, 2014
  5. "Climax Blues Band - Chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
  6. "Top 100 Hits for 1981". Longboredsurfer.com. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  8. Climax Blues Band, "I Love You" Chart Positions Retrieved April 5, 2014
  9. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 66. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  10. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  11. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  12. "Top 100 Hits of 1981/Top 100 Songs of 1981". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  14. "Lazlo Bane's Guilty Pleasures". cdbaby.com. Retrieved 2017-01-10.


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