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.^[2] 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.^[3] 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.^[4] and number six on the Country charts.^[5] 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 re-charted on the Adult Contemporary chart at No. 49.

1998 version

"I Honestly Love You '98"
Single by Olivia Newton-John
from the album Back with a Heart
Released	1998
Format	CD single
Recorded	1998
Genre	Pop, country
Length	4:04
Label	MCA
Writer(s)	Jeff Barry & Peter Allen
Producer(s)	John Farrar

In 1998, Newton-John released a new version of "I Honestly Love You" from her album Back with a Heart, which featured Babyface on background vocals, and reached number sixty-seven on the Billboard Hot 100, her first U.S. charted single in six years. The 1998 version also charted on the AC chart at No. 18 and in Country Music Sales at No. 16.

Chart performance

Chart (1974)	Peak position
Australian Kent Music Report	1
Canadian RPM Top Singles	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks	1
Swedish Singles Chart	1
UK Singles Chart	22
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	6
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening	1
Chart (1977)	Peak position
Canadian RPM Top Singles	55
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	48
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening	49
Chart (1983)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	52
Chart (1998)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	88
U.S. Billboard Country Singles Sales	16
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	67
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	18

Preceded by "I Love My Friend" by Charlie Rich	Billboard Easy Listening Singles number-one single 14 September 1974 - 28 September (three weeks)	Succeeded by "Tin Man" by America
Preceded by "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" by Barry White	Cashbox Top 100 number-one single 21 September 1974 (one week)	Succeeded by "Rock Me Gently" by Andy Kim
Preceded by "Nothing from Nothing" by Billy Preston	Cashbox Top 100 number-one single 19 October 1974 (one week)	Succeeded by "Can't Get Enough" by Bad Company
Preceded by "Rock Me Gently" by Andy Kim	Billboard Hot 100 number-one single 5 October 1974 - 12 October 1974 (two weeks)	Succeeded by "Nothing from Nothing" by Billy Preston
Preceded by "Another Saturday Night" by Cat Stevens	RPM Top Singles number-one single 5 October 1974 (one week)	Succeeded by "Beach Baby" by The First Class
Preceded by "Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town" by Charley Pride	RPM Country Tracks number-one single 16 November 1974 - 23 November 1974 (two weeks)	Succeeded by "Carefree Highway" by Gordon Lightfoot
Preceded by "The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace	Australian Kent Music Report number-one single 18 November 1974 - 9 December 1974 (four weeks)	Succeeded by "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas

References

↑ "American single certifications – Olivia Newton-John – I Honestly Love You". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH
↑ "VH1's 40 Most Softsational Soft-Rock Songs". 31 May 2007.
↑ "Past Winners Search | GRAMMY.com". grammy.com. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
↑ Whit-burn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 181.
↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 248.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Awards
Preceded by "Killing Me Softly with His Song" (Roberta Flack, 1974)	Grammy Award for Record of the Year 1975	Succeeded by "Love Will Keep Us Together" (Captain & Tennille, 1976)
	Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance 1975	Succeeded by "At Seventeen" (Janis Ian, 1976)

Olivia Newton-John singles

1970s	If Not for You "If Not for You" "Banks of the Ohio" Olivia "What is Life" "Just a Little Too Much" Let Me Be There "Take Me Home, Country Roads" "Let Me Be There" Long Live Love "Long Live Love" "I Honestly Love You" If You Love Me, Let Me Know "If You Love Me, Let Me Know" "I Honestly Love You" Have You Never Been Mellow "Have You Never Been Mellow" "Please Mr. Please" Clearly Love "Something Better to Do" "Let It Shine" Come on Over "Come on Over" "Jolene" Don't Stop Believin' "Don't Stop Believin'" "Every Face Tells a Story" "Sam" Making a Good Thing Better "Making a Good Thing Better" Grease "You're the One That I Want" "Summer Nights" "Hopelessly Devoted to You" Totally Hot "A Little More Love" "Deeper Than the Night" "Totally Hot"

1980s	Xanadu "Magic" "Xanadu" "Suddenly" Physical "Physical" "Make a Move on Me" "Landslide" Greatest Hits Vol. 2 "Heart Attack" "Tied Up" Two of a Kind "Twist of Fate" "Take a Chance" "Livin' in Desperate Times" Soul Kiss "Soul Kiss" "Toughen Up" The Rumour "The Rumour" "Can't We Talk It Over in Bed" Warm and Tender "Reach Out for Me" "When You Wish upon a Star"

1990s	Back to Basics "I Need Love" "Deeper Than a River" Gaia: One Woman's Journey "No Matter What You Do" "Don't Cut Me Down" Back with a Heart "I Honestly Love You (1998 version)" "Back with a Heart"

2010s	Grace and Gratitude "Help Me to Heal" A Few Best Men "Mickey (Chew Fu Fix)"

Featured singles	"I Can't Help It" "The Best of Me" "Had to Be" "Falling" "Physical (Glee cast version)" "You Have to Believe" (with Dave Aude and Chloe Lattanzi)

Other singles	"Till You Say You'll Be Mine" "Rest Your Love on Me" "Spirit of the Florest" "The Grease Megamix" "Grease: The Dream Mix" "One Heart at a Time" "Love Shouldn't Hurt" "Hope Is Always Here" "When You Wish upon a Star (2011 version)" "Magic (Peach & Murphy remix)"

Peter Allen

Studio albums	Peter Allen (1971) Tenterfield Saddler (1972) Continental American (1974) Taught by Experts (1976) I Could Have Been a Sailor (1979) Bi-Coastal (1980) Not the Boy Next Door (1983) Making Every Moment Count (1990)

Compilation albums	It Is Time for Peter Allen (1977) The Very Best of Peter Allen (1982) Captured Live at Carnegie Hall (1985) The Very Best of Peter Allen: The Boy from Down Under (1992) The Ultimate Peter Allen (2006)

Notable singles	"Tenterfield Saddler" (1972) "I Honestly Love You" (1975) "The More I See You" (1976) "I Go to Rio" (1976) "Don't Cry Out Loud" (1978) "I Still Call Australia Home" (1980)

Productions	Soon (1971) Legs Diamond (1988) The Boy from Oz (1998) Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door (2015)

Related articles	The Allen Brothers Liza Minnelli Bernadette Peters "I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love" (1979) "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" (1980) "I Don't Go Shopping" (1981) ARIA Hall of Fame

Grammy Award for Record of the Year (1970s)

"Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" by The 5th Dimension (Billy Davis, Jr., Florence LaRue, Marilyn McCoo, Lamont McLemore, Ron Townson) produced by Bones Howe (1970)	"Bridge over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel (Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon) produced by Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon & Roy Halee (1971)
"It's Too Late" by Carole King produced by Lou Adler (1972)	"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack produced by Joel Dorn (1973)
"Killing Me Softly with His Song" by Roberta Flack produced by Joel Dorn (1974)	"I Honestly Love You" by Olivia Newton-John produced by John Farrar (1975)
"Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain & Tennille (Daryl Dragon, Toni Tennille) produced by Daryl Dragon (1976)	"This Masquerade" by George Benson produced by Tommy LiPuma (1977)
"Hotel California" by Eagles (Don Felder, Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Randy Meisner, Joe Walsh) produced by Bill Szymczyk (1978)	"Just the Way You Are" by Billy Joel produced by Phil Ramone (1979)

Complete list
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