| "I'm Gonna Love You Too" | |||||||||||||||||
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| Single by Blondie | |||||||||||||||||
| from the album Parallel Lines | |||||||||||||||||
| B-side | Just Go Away | ||||||||||||||||
| Released | September 1978 | ||||||||||||||||
| Format | 7" vinyl | ||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1978 | ||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Power pop/New Wave | ||||||||||||||||
| Length | 2:03 | ||||||||||||||||
| Label | Chrysalis (US) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Joe B. Mauldin Niki Sullivan Norman Petty |
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| Producer | Mike Chapman | ||||||||||||||||
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"I'm Gonna Love You Too" is a song written by Joe B. Mauldin, Niki Sullivan and Norman Petty, originally recorded by Buddy Holly in 1958. It was recorded 20 years later by American New Wave band Blondie and released as a single from their 1978 album Parallel Lines.
Song history
Of the song's authors, two (Mauldin and Sullivan) were members of Holly's band The Crickets; the third, Petty, was Holly's first manager and also his recording engineer.
Holly included the song on his self-titled second album, Buddy Holly. It was released as a single on Coral Records but failed to crack the Billboard Hot 100.
The song was covered by The Hullaballoos in 1964 in a version that reached #56 in the U.S.
Blondie's version of the song was chosen as the lead single by Chrysalis Records to promote Parallel Lines in the U.S. The biggest hit from the band's previous album Plastic Letters was "Denis", a cover of Randy & The Rainbows' "Denise". This turned out to be a miscalculation by the record company, however, as "I'm Gonna Love You Too" failed to chart in the U.S. – a stark contrast to the breakthrough U.S. singles which followed. The song was eventually released as a single in a few other countries in late 1979 as the fifth or sixth single from Parallel Lines—after "Picture This", "Hanging On The Telephone", "Heart of Glass", "Sunday Girl" and "One Way or Another" had completed their run in the charts. It became a Top 10 hit in the Netherlands.
In 2007, a rare home video of Paul McCartney singing an acoustic version of this song was put on the chronology menu of the first disc of his latest DVD, The McCartney Years.
Release history (Blondie version)
- US 7" (CHS 2251)
- "I'm Gonna Love You Too" (Joe B. Mauldin, Norman Petty, Niki Sullivan) – 2:03
- "Just Go Away" (Deborah Harry) – 3:21
Chart information
| Chart (1978) | Peak Position |
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| Netherlands | 6 |
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