Love Me

Album: Love Me (1976)
Charted: 6 14
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  • This was written and originally recorded by The Bee Gees, who included it on their 1976 album Children of the World. A plea to one's lover to give their love another try, it was Elliman's second-biggest hit in the US. Her only more popular song was "If I Can't Have You," which she recorded the next year, and was also written by The Bee Gees. >>>
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    Mike - Santa Barbara, CA

Comments: 2

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn May 21, 1977, Yvonne Elliman performed "Love Me" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV network Saturday-afternoon program 'American Bandstand'...
    "Love Me" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart on October 26th, 1976 at position #85; twelve weeks later it would peak at #14 {for 2 weeks} and it spent 19 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #5 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart...
    On the same 'Bandstand' show she also performed her covered version of "Hello Stranger"; at the time it was at #15 on the Top 100, and that would be also it's peak position on the chart...
    Between 1971 and 1979 she had seven Top 100 records; one reached the Top 10 and it peaked at #1, "If I Can't Have You" for one week on May 7th, 1978...
    Yvonne Marianne Elliman Hyman will celebrate her 66th birthday this coming December 29th {2017}.
  • Karen from Manchester, NhTHIS is my favorite Yvonne Elliman song!
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