I Think I Love You

"I Think I Love You"
Single by The Partridge Family
from the album The Partridge Family Album
B-side

"Somebody Wants to Love You"

"To Be Lovers" (Philippines)
Released August 22, 1970
Format 7" single
Genre Pop, baroque pop
Length 2:54
Label Bell
Writer(s) Tony Romeo
Producer(s) Wes Farrell
Certification Gold (RIAA)
The Partridge Family singles chronology
"I Think I Love You"
(1970)
"Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted"
(1971)

"I Think I Love You" is a song composed by songwriter Tony Romeo in 1970. It was released as the debut single by The Partridge Family pop group, featuring David Cassidy on lead vocals and Shirley Jones on background vocals. The Partridge Family version was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1970. The alternative rock band Voice of the Beehive scored a hit cover version of their own in 1991. There have also been many other cover versions of this song, most notably, Perry Como, Kaci, and Katie Cassidy.

The Partridge Family version

Background and release

The single was produced by Wes Farrell and issued on Bell Records a month before the debut of the network television musical sitcom The Partridge Family. During the show's first season the song was featured on the show twice as it was climbing the actual Billboard charts. The single hit number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and in Canada on the RPM 100 national Top Singles chart in November of that year[1] and number 1 in Australia in 1971.

The only cast members of the television show to actually sing on the recording of the song were David Cassidy and Shirley Jones. The music on the song was played by veteran studio musicians such as Hal Blaine, Larry Knechtel, Joe Osborne, Louie Shelton, Tommy Tedesco, and other L.A. session musicians from the Wrecking Crew.[2][3] Background vocals on this, and all other Partridge Family recordings, were provided by veteran session singers: Ron Hicklin, John Bahler, Tom Bahler, and Jackie Ward.

The Partridge Family won a NARM award for the best-selling single of the year in 1970 for their hit "I Think I Love You".[4]

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1970–71) Peak
position
Australia KMR[5] 1
Canada RPM[1] 1
New Zealand[6] 5
UK Singles Chart[7] 18
US Billboard Hot 100[8] 1
US Billboard Adult Contemporary 8
US Cash Box Top 100[9] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1970) Rank
Australia[5] 76
Canada[10] 2
US (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual)[11] 6
Chart (1971) Rank
Australia[5] 14

Perry Como version

On November 25, 1970, "I Think I Love You" was recorded by Perry Como, with Nick Perito's orchestra, at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The song was released by RCA Victor Records on an album, It's Impossible, in December 1970, and reissued in 1975. RCA also released the recording on an EP in Mexico in 1971.

Voice of the Beehive version

"I Think I Love You"
Single by Voice of the Beehive
from the album Honey Lingers
Released 1991
Format 7" single, cassette single, CD single
Genre Rock
Length 3:13
Label London Records
Writer(s) Tony Romeo
Producer(s) Don Was
Voice of the Beehive singles chronology
"Monsters and Angels"
(1991)
"I Think I Love You"
(1991)
"Perfect Place"
(1991)

In 1991, the alternative rock band Voice of the Beehive recorded a cover version of "I Think I Love You" for the group's second studio album Honey Lingers. It was released as the second single from their album on London Records and was produced by Don Was. Their version of the song hit number 25 on the UK Singles Chart in October 1991.[12] The single also hit number 12 on the Australian singles chart in March 1992.[13]

Other versions

References

  1. 1 2 "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  2. liner notes from The Partridge Family Album, Razor and Tie Music Corporation, CD, 1993
  3. Hartman, Kent (2012). The Wrecking Crew. St. Martin’s Griffin. pp. 261–263. ISBN 978-1-250-03046-7.
  4. C'mon, Get Happy...Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus, by David Cassidy and Chip Deffaa, 1994 DBC Enterprises, Warner Books Inc, p. 92
  5. 1 2 3 "Australian Chart Book". Austchartbook.com.au. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  6. "flavour of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  7. Roberts, David (2006).British Hit Singles & Albums(19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 419. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  8. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  9. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". collectionscanada.gc.ca.
  10. Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.
  11. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 588. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  12. Kent, David (1993).Australian Chart Book 1970-1992. St Ives, NSW, Australia: Australian Chart Book. p.330. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  13. Georges Guétary, Papa je t'aime on YouTube Retrieved November 29, 2011
  14. David Lewis (2008-07-24). "Paul Westerberg – '49:00′". Variety. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
Preceded by
"I'll Be There" by The Jackson 5
US Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
(The Partridge Family version)

November 21, 1970 (three weeks)
Succeeded by
"The Tears of a Clown" by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
Preceded by
"We've Only Just Begun" by The Carpenters
Canadian RPM 100 number-one single
(The Partridge Family version)

November 21, 1970 (four weeks)
Succeeded by
"Isn't It a Pity" by George Harrison
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