Just Say I Love Her

"Just Say I Love Her" ("Just Say I Love Him" when recorded by a female singer) is a popular song, adapted from the Neapolitan song "Dicitencello vuie". The original music was written by Neapolitan composer Rodolfo Falvo; arrangement in US by Jack Val and Jimmy Dale; the original Neapolitan lyrics by Enzo Fusco, and English lyrics by Martin Kalmanoff and Sam Ward.

A recording by Johnny Desmond was made on January 20, 1950, and released by MGM (catalog number 10758). It reached #24 on the Billboard chart. Vic Damone's 1950 recording of the song reached #13 on the Billboard chart.

Recorded versions

• Johnny Desmond (1950)
• Frankie Avalon
• Tony Bennett (1950)
• Vic Damone (1950)
• Eddie Fisher
• Connie Francis
• Sumo
• Robert Goulet
• Dean Martin
• Al Martino
• Cliff Richard
• Artie Shaw
• Nina Simone on the 1961 album Forbidden Fruit and the 1993 album A Single Woman
• Jerry Vale
• Lou Monte (1958)
• Engelbert Humperdinck (1970)
• Jimmy Roselli
• Sergio Franchi covered this Neapolitan favorite on his 1963 Billboard Top 200 (at 66th place) album Our Man from Italy; also on his 1965 album Live From The Cocoanut Grove; and on his 1976 album 20 Magnificent Songs. He recorded it in Italian, and in Italian/English combination.