Love Me or Leave Me (Donaldson and Kahn song) 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. The original version of the song, the biggest-selling at the time, was recorded by Ruth Etting on December 17, 1928. It was issued by Columbia Records as catalog number
You Must Love Me singles, in honor of her 60th birthday, "The Guardian"s Jude Rogers placed "You Must Love Me" at number 50, calling it the singer's best performance from the film and pointing out the "emotional quaking desperation" in her voice. Negative criticism came from the "San Francisco Chronicle"s Barbara Shulgasser, who wrote "['You Must Love Me'] didn't help a bit. Rice writes lazy, dumb lyrics that make no effort to correspond to the rhythms of the music". In the United States, "You Must Love Me" was serviced to radio on October 9, 1996. It was met with a positive response, garnering 118