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I Honestly Love You
"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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=VH1's 40 Most Softsational Soft-Rock Songs )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Past Winners Search | GRAMMY.com )〕 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. and number six on the Country charts. 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 recharted on the Adult Contemporary chart at No. 49.
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