You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (album) You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (album) You Don't Have to Say You Love Me is the fourth album of singer Dusty Springfield to be released in the USA, issued on the Philips Records label in 1966. The album was more or less a retitled re-issue of Springfield's British album "Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty", recorded and released in 1965, with the addition of the two hit singles "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" and "Little By Little", both released in 1966. In fact, "Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty" had been released in the US a few months
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me write their own lyric for an anti-love song to be called "I Don't Love You"; when that original idea proved unproductive it was adjusted first to "You Don't Love Me" and then "You Don't Have to Love Me" which was finalized as "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" to fit the song's melody. Napier-Bell was later to title his first book (an autobiographical account of the British music scene of the 1960s) "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" after the song. Springfield recorded her vocal the next day: unhappy with the acoustics in the recording booth