I Love You (Climax Blues Band song)

"I Love You"
British single picture sleeve
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)

"I Love You" is a song by the Climax Blues Band, released as a single in 1981, from the album Flying the Flag.[4]

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 Canada Top Singles (RPM)[10] 14 Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)[11] 30 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[12] 12 U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary[12] 20 U.S. Cash Box Top 100[8] 9

Year-end charts Chart (1981) Position U.S. Billboard Hot 100[13] 20 U.S. Cash Box [14] 46

Credits

Nicky Hopkins played grand 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.[15]

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

The song is featured in the closing credits of the 2008 Kevin Smith comedy film Zac and Miri Make a Porno

References

1. I Love You (Credits). Climax Blues Band. Warner Bros. Records. 1981.
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. "Top 100 Hits for 1981". 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. "Top RPM Singles: Issue 0360." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
11. "Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Issue 0350." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
12. "I Love You (song by Climax Blues Band)". Music VF.com. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
13. "Top 100 Hits of 1981/Top 100 Songs of 1981". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
14. "Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1981". Cashboxmagazine.com. Archived from the original on 18 September 2012. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
15. "Lazlo Bane's Guilty Pleasures". cdbaby.com. Retrieved 2017-01-10.