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
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