You Don't Have to Say You Love Me entitled "Jo no puc viure sense tu" was a 1965 single release for Renata. Pino Donaggio himself recorded a Spanish version of the song entitled "Yo que no vivo sin ti", which was remade in 1971 by Angélica María for her self-titled album and in 1987 by Luis Miguel on his album "Soy Como Quiero Ser", Miguel's version ranking at No.26 on the Hot Latin Tracks in "Billboard". Most international versions of the song were subsequent to Dusty Springfield's 1966 success with "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" and reference that version's lyrics rather than the Italian original.
I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song Croce wrote the song in early 1973 when he arrived home and got into a disagreement with his wife, Ingrid. Instead of arguing with her, she has stated that Croce "went downstairs, and he started to play like he always did when he wrote ... the next morning, he came up early in the morning and sang it to me." Ingrid Croce wrote an autobiographical cookbook, "Thyme In A Bottle," in which she includes interesting anecdotes about Jim. She wrote the following about "I'll Have To Say 'I Love You' in a Song": One weekend, after being on the road