I Do Love You (Billy Stewart song)

"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]

"I Do Love You"
Single by Billy Stewart
from the album I Do Love You
B-side	"Keep Loving"
Released	February 1965
Genre	Soul
Length	2:58
Label	Chess
Songwriter(s)	Billy Stewart
Billy Stewart singles chronology
"Tell It Like It Is" (1964) "I Do Love You" (1965) "Sitting in the Park" (1965)

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 version

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.

Other versions

• Barbara Mason, on her 1968 album, Oh How It Hurts.^[8]
• Jackie Edwards, as a single in 1972 in the UK, but it did not chart.^[9]
• The Heptones, as a single in 1972, but it did not chart.^[10]
• Janet Kay, as a single in 1980 in the UK, but it did not chart.^[11]