You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me. Dusty Springfield
The original song was titled ‘lo che non vivo (senza te)’ in English ‘I Who Can’t Live (Without You) and was an italian Number 1 single for it’s writer Pino Donaggio. The song was introduced at The San Remo Festival in 1965, attending and in the audience was Dusty Springfield. Dusty instantly loved the song without understanding the lyric and obtained a copy. A year later, Springfield had an instumental version of the song recorded in London, her friend Vicky Wickham producer of Tv Show Ready Steady Go and Simon Napier Bell started to work on an english lyric, neither were songwriters or understood italian. Originally they wrote ‘I Don’t Love You’ then ‘You Don’t Love Me’ then ‘You Don’t Have To Love Me’ and finally ‘You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me’ which fitted the melody. The next day Dusty recorded the song, unhappy with the sound in the vocal booth, she recorded the vocal on the stairwell, which took 47 takes before Dusty approved. The record went to Number 1 in the U.K. on the 26th April 1966 and would be a Number 4 chart single in the U.S.A.