Stay Awhile/I Only Want to Be with You Stay Awhile/I Only Want to Be with You Stay Awhile/I Only Want to Be with You is the first album of the singer Dusty Springfield to be released in the USA. It was issued on the Philips Records label in 1964 and includes Springfield's hit singles "I Only Want To Be With You", "Stay Awhile" and "Wishin' and Hopin. Springfield's British debut album "A Girl Called Dusty" was released in April 1964. The US debut, issued some three months later, was technically a compilation of tracks from "A Girl Called Dusty", her first two UK singles, and other Springfield recordings.
Don't Say You Love Me (M2M song) ad-libbed background vocals until the song fades out. Lyrically, the song is about getting "the rules straight on a budding relationship: Slow down and don't say you love me until you give me some time and get to know me." According to musicologist Jon Mikkel Broch Ålvik, "Don't Say You Love Me" is the "thinking person's teen pop." Ålvik rejects a superficial interpretation that the lyrics are a "moralistic message of abstinence", arguing instead that M2M "signal a stance that sounds considered and assured rather than prudish" and that the song is a statement of "burgeoning agency." The song has