Love Me or Leave Me (Donaldson and Kahn song) Inventions in the middle of the song. Ella Fitzgerald included her rendition on her 1962 Verve release "Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson" which won a Grammy Award in 1963. Love Me or Leave Me (Donaldson and Kahn song) "Love Me or Leave Me" is a popular song written in 1928 by Walter Donaldson with lyrics by Gus Kahn. The song was introduced in the Broadway play "Whoopee!", which opened in December 1928. Ruth Etting's performance of the song was so popular that she was also given the song to sing in the play "Simple Simon", which opened in February 1930.
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon to help each other. Unlike Minnelli's previous film, 1969's "The Sterile Cuckoo", which was successful artistically and financially, as well as netting Minnelli an Oscar nomination as Best Actress, "Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon" was a failure with critics and at the box office. Minnelli's next film two years later, "Cabaret", not only won her the Academy Award as Best Actress, but also established her as a major star. Olive Films announced in 2016 that it would release "Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon" on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time on August 16,