When Will You Say I Love You
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| "When Will You Say I Love You" | ||||
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| Single by Billy Fury | ||||
| B-side | "All I Wanna Do Is Cry" | |||
| Released | 10 May 1963[1] | |||
| Recorded | 26 September 1962[2] | |||
| Studio | Decca Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 2:24 | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Alan Fielding | |||
| Producer(s) | Mike Smith | |||
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"When Will You Say I Love You" is a song by English singer Billy Fury, released as a single in May 1963. It peaked at number 3 on the Record Retailer Top 50.[3]
"When Will You Say I Love You" was written by Alan Fielding, who had previously written another Fury hit "Last Night Was Made for Love". The B-side, "All I Wanna Do Is Cry" was written by David Battaglia and Johnny Brandon and had originally been released by America R&B singer Billy Bland in January 1962.[4]
Reviewing for Disc, Don Nicholl wrote that "When Will You Say I Love You" "opens as if it's going to be a fast piano concerto. But soon slides into a familiar lazy beat for another hit ballad", with Fury singing "the lyrics romantically with those undertones of Presley which seem to be doing him a lot of good commercially nowadays".[1] In New Record Mirror, it was described as "a good song with a good tune and a very good lyric. Medium tempo, with a different approach that seems fresh for a change".[5]