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.
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