Elvis Presley – You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me

About The Song

– “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me” (originally a 1965 Italian song, ‘”Io che non vivo (senza te)”, by Pino Donaggio and Vito Pallavicini) is a 1966 hit recorded by English singer Dusty Springfield that proved to be her most successful single, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart and number four on the Billboard Hot 100.

“You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me” was recorded by Elvis Presley for his 1970 album release That’s the Way It Is, from which it was issued as the second single 6 October 1970. The track had been recorded in the evening of 6 June 1970 in Studio B of RCA Studios (Nashville), being the third of seven songs recorded that night. The session producer, Felton Jarvis, felt that the second take was good enough to serve as the master track but Presley insisted on a third and final take.

Reaching No. 11 on the Hot 100 in Billboard magazine, “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me” afforded Presley a No.1 hit on the Billboard Easy Listening chart, also reaching No.56 on the Billboard C&W chart. It became a gold record. A hit for Presley in both Australia (No.7) and Canada (No.6), “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me” was twice a hit for Presley in the British Isles, with its original release reaching No.9 in the UK and No.17 in Ireland, in which territories the track’s 2007 re-release charted with respective peaks of No.16 and No.29. The single went on to become the best-selling record of 1971 in Japan, with Oricon reporting sales of 225,000 copies, making Presley the first foreign artist in history to do so, until Michael Jackson released Thriller in 1984.

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 When I said, I needed you
You said you would always stay
It wasn’t me who changed, but you
And now you’ve gone away

Don’t you know that now you’re gone
And I’m left here on my own
Then I have to follow you
And beg you to come home

You don’t have to say you love me
Just be close at hand
You don’t have to stay forever
I will understand

Believe me, believe me
I can’t help but love you
But believe me,
I’ll never tie you down

Left alone with just a memory
Life seems dead and so unreal
All that’s left is loneliness
There’s nothing left to feel

You don’t have to say you love me
Just be close at hand
You don’t have to stay forever
I will understand

Believe me, oh, believe me

You don’t have to say you love me
Just be close at hand
You don’t have to stay forever
I will understand

Believe me, believe me, believe me