I Do Love You | |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Billy Stewart |
Album: | I Do Love You |
B-Side: | Keep Loving |
Released: | February 1965 |
Genre: | Soul |
Label: | Chess |
Prev Title: | Tell It Like It Is |
Prev Year: | 1964 |
Next Title: | Sitting in the Park |
Next Year: | 1965 |
"I Do Love You" is a song written and performed by Billy Stewart. It reached #6 on the U.S. R&B chart and #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1965.[1] It was featured on his 1965 album, I Do Love You.[2]
Arrangement was by Phil Wright.[3]
Stewart re-released the song as a single in 1969 which reached #94 on the Billboard Hot 100.[4]
The sound is loosely based around the last 30 seconds of The Impressions track, "I've Been Trying" from their 1964 album "Keep On Pushing".
GQ released a version as a single in July 1979 which reached #5 on the U.S. R&B chart and #20 on the Billboard Hot 100.[5] It was featured on their 1979 album, Disco Nights.[6]
The single ranked #99 on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1979.[7]
The song is featured on 2001 film Baby Boy.
Warren G sampled GQ's version on the song "Relax Ya Mind" from his 1997 album, Take a Look Over Your Shoulder.