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]

"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]

Weekly singles charts Chart (1981) Peak position Australian (Kent Music Report)^[9] 59 Canadian RPM Top Singles^[10] 14 Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary ^[11] 30 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 12 U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary 20 U.S. Cash Box Top 100^[8] 9

Year-end charts Chart (1981) Position U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[12] 20 U.S. Cash Box ^[13] 46

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

1. I Love You (Credits). Climax Blues Band. Warner Bros. Records. 1980.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (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. Climax Blues Band, "I Love You" Chart Positions Retrieved April 5, 2014
7. . Longboredsurfer.com. Archived from the original on 1 January 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
8. "Cash Box Top 100 6/20/81". Cashboxmagazine.com. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
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.
13. "Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1981". Cashboxmagazine.com. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
14. "Lazlo Bane's Guilty Pleasures". cdbaby.com. Retrieved 2017-01-10.