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.
Love Me or Leave Me (Doris Day album) Love Me or Leave Me (Doris Day album) Love Me or Leave Me is a Doris Day album based on the soundtrack of the film of the same name. It was released monaurally by Columbia Records as catalog number CL-710 on May 2, 1955, in both LP as well as 45-EP formats and became her best-selling album to date, spending 28 weeks on the Billboard magazine album chart and reaching the #1 position. The best-selling album of Day's career, it ranks #16 of all albums produced between 1955 and 1996. For the 1963 re-release of the picture and subsequent re-release