“You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me” is the title of a 1966 hit recorded by British singer Dusty Springfield which proved to be her career record reaching #1 UK and #4 US: the song subsequently charted in the UK via remakes by Elvis Presley (#9/ 1971), Guys ‘n’ Dolls (#5/ 1976) and Denise Welch (#23/ 1995 with Presley’s version also reaching #11 US in 1970. The song had originally been written with Italian lyrics and entitled “Io che non vivo (senza te)” and as such was a #1 hit in Italy for Pino Donaggio in 1965: as “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me” the song reached #6 in Italy in 1983 via a remake by Wall Street Crash a vocal octet led by Keith Strachan. “En Koskaan”, a Finnish rendition, was a Top Ten for Kristina Hautala hit in Finland in 1966-67. Continue reading →