I Honestly Love You
"I Honestly Love You" | ||||
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Single by Olivia Newton-John | ||||
from the album Long Live Love (UK) If You Love Me, Let Me Know (US) |
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B-side | "Home Ain't Home Anymore" (U.S.) "Get Your Paper Dues" (UK) |
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Released | 28 April 1974 | |||
Format | 7" | |||
Recorded | January 1974 | |||
Genre | Country pop | |||
Length | 3:40 | |||
Label | MCA | |||
Writer(s) | Jeff Barry & Peter Allen | |||
Producer(s) | John Farrar | |||
Certification | Gold (US)[1] | |||
Olivia Newton-John singles chronology | ||||
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"I Honestly Love You" (first released in Australia as "I Love You, I Honestly Love You", per its chorus) was a worldwide pop hit single for Olivia Newton-John in 1974. The song was Newton-John's first number-one single in the United States and Canada.
Released on the Long Live Love album in the United Kingdom by EMI, it was eventually released on the album If You Love Me, Let Me Know in the United States on MCA. The song was written by Jeff Barry and the Australian composer Peter Allen; the latter recorded it around the same time on his album Continental American. It also appears in the musical about Allen's life, The Boy from Oz. VH1 placed the song at No. 11 on its "40 Most Softsational Soft-Rock Songs" list.[2] The song won Newton-John both the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 17th Grammy Awards.[3] Andy Williams released a version in 1974 on his album, You Lay So Easy on My Mind.
Chart performance
The song topped the charts in the U.S. on 5 October 1974, and went on to sell over two million copies, being certified Platinum. It also reached number one (three weeks) on the Adult Contemporary charts.[4] and number six on the Country charts.[5] The song won Grammy Awards for Female Pop Vocal Performance and Record of the Year. The song's success also helped propel its parent album, If You Love Me, Let Me Know, to number one. By contrast, the single failed to reach the top-twenty in the United Kingdom (#22), although it did chart there in 1983 when it was re-released to promote a Newton-John greatest hits album.
Newton-John re-released the original hit version of the song in 1977, backed with "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" from her then-current album Making a Good Thing Better, and it reached number forty-eight Pop (outperforming the only single from Making a Good Thing Better, the title song, which stalled at number eighty-seven). The song also re-charted on the Adult Contemporary chart at No. 49.
1998 version
"I Honestly Love You '98" | |
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Single by Olivia Newton-John | |
from the album Back with a Heart | |
Released | 1998 |
Format | CD single |
Recorded | 1998 |
Genre | Pop, country |
Length | 4:04 |
Label | MCA |
Producer(s) | John Farrar |
In 1998, Newton-John released a new version of "I Honestly Love You" from her album Back with a Heart, which featured Babyface on background vocals, and reached number sixty-seven on the Billboard Hot 100, her first U.S. charted single in six years. The 1998 version also charted on the AC chart at No. 18 and in Country Music Sales at No. 16.
Chart performance
Chart (1974) | Peak position |
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Australian ARIA Singles Chart | 1 |
Canadian RPM Top Singles | 1 |
Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 1 |
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks | 1 |
Swedish Singles Chart | 1 |
UK Singles Chart | 22 |
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 6 |
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening | 1 |
Chart (1977) | Peak position |
Canadian RPM Top Singles | 55 |
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks | 1 |
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 48 |
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening | 49 |
Chart (1983) | Peak position |
UK Singles Chart | 52 |
Chart (1998) | Peak position |
Australian ARIA Singles Chart | 88 |
U.S. Billboard Country Singles Sales | 16 |
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 67 |
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks | 18 |
Preceded by | Billboard Easy Listening number-one single 14 September 1974 (three weeks) |
Succeeded by "Tin Man" by America |
Preceded by | Cashbox Top 100 number-one single 21 September 1974 (one week) |
Succeeded by "Rock Me Gently" by Andy Kim |
Preceded by | Cashbox Top 100 number-one single 19 October 1974 (one week) |
Succeeded by "Can't Get Enough" by Bad Company |
Preceded by
"Rock Me Gently" by Andy Kim
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Billboard Hot 100 number-one single 5 October 1974 (two weeks) |
Succeeded by "Nothing from Nothing" by Billy Preston |
Preceded by | RPM Top Singles number-one single 5 October 1974 (one week) |
Succeeded by "Beach Baby" by The First Class |
Preceded by | RPM Country Tracks number-one single 16 November 1974 (two weeks) |
Succeeded by "Carefree Highway" by Gordon Lightfoot |
Preceded by | Australian ARIA Singles Chart number-one single 18 November 1974 (four weeks) |
Succeeded by "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas |
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External links
Awards | ||
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Preceded by
"Killing Me Softly with His Song" (Roberta Flack, 1974)
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Grammy Award for Record of the Year 1975 |
Succeeded by "Love Will Keep Us Together" (Captain & Tennille, 1976) |
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance 1975 |
Succeeded by "At Seventeen" (Janis Ian, 1976) |
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