You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

Infobox Single
Name =You Don't Have to Say You Love Me


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Artist =Dusty Springfield
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B-side ="Every Ounce of Strength" (Cropper/Hayes/Porter)
Released =March 1966
Format =7" 45rpm
Recorded =Philips Studio, Stanhope Place, London
Genre =Pop music
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Label =Philips Records
Writer = Pino Donaggio, Vito Pallavicini, Vicki Wickham, Simon Napier-Bell
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Certification =
Last single ="Little by Little"
(1966)
This single ="You Don't Have to Say You Love Me"
(1966)
Next single ="Goin' Back"
(1966)
Misc ="You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" is a song recorded by British singer Dusty Springfield. It is an English version of an Italian song called "Io che non vivo (senza te)" written by Pino Donaggio and Vito Pallavicini. Springfield heard it at the Sanremo Festival in 1965 where it was performed by Donaggio himself and his team partner Jody Miller, and she presented it to Vicki Wickham and Simon Napier-Bell, who wrote the English lyrics for the song. Released in early 1966, the single release of Springfield's recording became a huge hit and remains one of the songs most identified with her. The song hit #1 in Britain, the only #1 of Springfield's career there, 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.

In 1976, pop group Guys n' Dolls revived the song for a new generation and scored a No.5 hit with it in the UK Charts. [ [http://www.chartstats.com/songinfo.php?id=6951/ Chartstats.com | Guys N Dolls Chart details] ]

Other cover versions of the Italian original were recorded among others in French ("Moi, qui ne peux vivre" by Richard Anthony) and German ("Alle meine Träume", by Corry Brokken), and Spanish ("Yo que no vivo sin tí" by Iva Zanicchi).

Other English-language versions

The song is recorded by several other artists, including:
*Brenda Lee
*Lynn Anderson
*Elvis Presley (A-side of single b/w "Patch It Up" (October 6, 1970 - Billboard Hot 100 #11, U.S. adult contemporary #1)
*Matt Monro
*Jerry Vale
*Taylor Dayne
*Nadia Turner
*Cher
*Stephanie Edwards
*Lani Misalucha
*Ramiele Malubay
*Kiki Dee
*Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
*Shelby Lynne

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