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I'll Always Love You (The Spinners song)

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"I'll Always Love You"
Single by The Spinners
from the album The Original Spinners
B-side"Tomorrow May Never Come"
ReleasedJune 4, 1965
Recorded1965; Hitsville USA (Studio A)
(Detroit, Michigan)
GenreSoul, R&B, Pop
Length2:42
LabelMotown Records
M 1078
Songwriter(s)

William "Mickey" Stevenson

Producer(s)
The Spinners singles chronology
"Sweet Thing"
(1964)
"I'll Always Love You"
(1965)
"Truly Yours"
(1966)

"I'll Always Love You" is a song co-written by William "Mickey" Stevenson and Ivy Jo Hunter and produced by Stevenson and Hunter as a single for The Spinners on the Motown Records label. The single became the Detroit-reared group's first charting single on the Motown Records company since they had signed with the company in 1964 (and their third charting hit over all). The song was a top 40 pop single on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, on which it peaked at number 35.[1] On the Billboard R&B singles chart, "I'll Always Love You" peaked at number 8.[2][3] The song featured lead vocals by the group's main lead singer, Bobby Smith.

Credits

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Charts

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Chart (1965) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 35
US Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles (Billboard) 8

References

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  1. ^ Carolina Beach Music
  2. ^ The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 5: 1965 [CD liner notes]. New York: Hip-O Select/Motown/Universal Records.
  3. ^ "US Charts > The Spinners". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-11-18.