Love Me Forever (song)
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“Love Me Forever” | |
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Single by The Four Esquires | |
Released | 1957 |
Genre | Pop |
Length | 2:26 |
Label | Paris Records |
Songwriter(s) | Beverly Guthrie (lyrics), Gary Lynes (music) |
“Love Me Forever” is a popular song by the Four Esquires. Released in the United States by independent record label Paris Records (cat. no. 509), it features orchestral backing by Sid Bass with a female session vocalist and peaked at #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1957. It also reached #23 on the UK Singles Chart.
Track listing
A. “Love Me Forever” (Beverly Guthrie, Gary Lynes)- 2:26 B. “I Ain’t Been Right Since You Left” (Al Hoffman, Dick Manning) – 2:12
Other recordings
- Jodie Sands recorded her version of the song in early 1961. Like the Four Esquires’ original, it was also released on Paris Records (cat. no. 551). Arranged and conducted by Robert Mersey and produced by Jack Gold, Sands’s version did not chart.
- British big band singer Denny Dennis recorded his version of “Love Me Forever” for budget label Embassy Records (cat. no. WB 273).
- Outside the United States, a version by Marion Ryan (Pye Nixa cat. no. 15121) reached No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart in 1958 — her highest charting hit ever. It featured the Beryl Stott Chorus and an orchestra directed by Peter Knight.
- Eydie Gormé’s cover version of the song (ABC-Paramount cat. no. 9873) — arranged and conducted by Don Costa and featuring a trumpet solo by Bernie Glow — reached the no. 24 position on the Billboard pop charts in 1957 and No. 21 in the UK in 1958.
Eydie Gormé (also spelled Gorme; August 16, 1928 – August 10, 2013) was an American singer who performed solo as well as with her husband, Steve Lawrence, in popular ballads and swing. She earned numerous awards, including a Grammy and an Emmy.
She retired in 2009. She died in 2013, and is survived by Lawrence, who continues to perform as a solo act. She got her big break and her recording debut in 1950 with the Tommy Tucker Orchestra and Don Brown. She made a second recording which featured Dick Noel. MGM issued these two recordings on 78.
Eydie Gormé enjoyed hit singles of her own, none selling bigger than 1963’s “Blame It on the Bossa Nova”, which was also her final foray into the Top 40 pop charts. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc.
In the UK, “Yes, My Darling Daughter” reached #10.
She won a Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Performance in 1967, for her version of “If He Walked Into My Life”, from Mame.
The latter made #5 on the Billboard magazine Easy Listening chart in 1966, despite failing to make the Billboard Hot 100. Many of Gormé’s singles chart success from 1963 onward were on the Easy Listening/Adult Contemporary charts, where she placed 27 singles (both solo and with her husband) from 1963 to 1979 (of which “If He Walked Into My Life” was the most successful). As a soloist, her other biggest hits during that period included “What Did I Have That I Don’t Have?” from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (#17 Easy Listening, 1966)
and “Tonight I’ll Say a Prayer” (#45 Pop and #8 Easy Listening, 1969, also her last Hot 100 entry as a solo.
Lyrics – Love Me Forever
Love me, love me forever
Take me, make me your own
Promise, promise you’ll never
Leave me lost and alone
Kiss me strongly and sweetly
Tell me you will be true
Love me, love me completely
Now and forever, as I love you.Love me, love me forever
Take me, make me your own
Promise, promise you’ll never
Leave me lost and alone
Kiss me strongly and sweetly
Tell me you will be true
Love me, love me completely
Now and forever, as I love you.
Other version of Love Me Forever
- Thembi – Love me Forever
- Carlton & The Shoes – Love Me Forever – instrumental
- Elisa – Love Me Forever
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