DANA I Love How You Love Me 1977 (FoD101)

This tremendous opening track to her fourth album, Love Songs & Fairytales from 1976, is vastly different to the one Phil Spector produced for The Paris Sisters in 1961. Their slow ballad got to #5 in the US chart and sold a million. DANA has increased the tempo, changed the middle and sends her voice into the stratosphere! Would have gone down well on Top of the Pops if issued in the UK. Sounds like the best version ever made and there are lots of them on Spotify. Yet GTO Records appear to have only released it in some European countries, such as Belgium where it reached #11 and the Netherlands, the home of this super video, where it peaked at #27. Love Songs & Fairytales was produced by the Grammy Award-winning songwriter who co-wrote It’s Gonna be a Cold Cold Christmas, Geoff Stephens (RIP 24 December 2020). I love how your eyes close Whenever you kiss me And when I’m away from you I love how you miss me I love the way you always treat me tenderly But darling, most of all I love how you love me I love how your heart beats (I love how your heart beats) Ooh, whenever I hold you (whenever I hold you) I love how you think of me (I love how you think of me) Without being told to Ooh, I love the way your touch is always heavenly But darling, most of all I love how you love me Oh, how you love me Ahhhhh Love me Oooooh I love how your heart beats (I love how your heart beats) Whenever I hold you (whenever I hold you) I love how you think of me (I love how you think of me) Without being told to (without being told to) I love the way your touch is, ooh, heavenly But darling, most of all I love how you love me (love how you love me) I love how you hug me (love how you hug me) I love how you squeeze me, please me, tease me Love how you love me (love how you love me) I love how you hug me (love how you hug me) I love how you squeeze me, please me, tease me Love… Written by Barry Mann and Larry Kolber Trivia: “According to Lester Sill, with whom Spector was then staying, Spector would bring the tapes for “I Love How You Love Me“ from Gold Star Studios every evening to review in his room: “he would wake me up at three or four in the morning, listening to [the song] over and over again at a very low level.“ Sill says Spector “must have remixed the strings on that song thirty times; then listened to it for another four or five days before he was sure it was right. Then finally when the record was pressed he listened to the pressing for another two or three days before he gave it an approval.““ (Wikipedia)