Love Me Or Leave Me: Original Soundtrack Recording (album)

US Release Date: 2 May 1955

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1. It All Depends on You
   (Buddy deSylva/Lew Brown/Ray Henderson)
2. You Made Me Love You [I Didn't Want To Do It]
   (Joseph McCarthy/James V. Monaco)
3. Stay on the Right Side, Sister
   (Rube Bloom/Ted Koehler)
4. Mean to Me
   (Roy Turk/Fred E. Ahlert)
5. Everybody Loves My Baby
   [But My Baby Don't Love Nobody But Me]
   (Spencer Williams/Jack Palmer)
6. Sam, The Old Accordion Man
   (Walter Donaldson)
7. Shaking The Blues Away
   (Irving Berlin)
8. Ten Cents A Dance
   (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart)
9. I’ll Never Stop Loving You
   (Nicholas Brodszky/Sammy Cahn)
10. Never Look Back
    (Chilton Price)
11. At Sundown
    (Walter Donaldson)
12. Love Me Or Leave Me
    (Walter Donaldson/Gus Kahn)

Original LP versions 10 Nov 1954-1March 1955 at M-G-M studios in California. This soundtrack is nothing short of a work of art! All quite understandable when you find such an impressive array of song material including the Oscar nominated ballad “I’ll Never Stop Loving You”. This release is Doris’s biggest-selling album stateside. It peaked at the #1 position and spent a staggering 28 weeks on the American Billboard chart. Love Me or Leave Me was also one of the most successful musical-movies of the 1950s and boasts one of Doris’s finest dramatically-charged screen performances! Columbia/Legacy (USA) released a digitally remastered CD edition of this album in 1993. It featured stereo mixes of those songs included on the 1955 mono LP (with exception of “Ten Cents A Dance” which was now included as part of an extended medley of songs), as well as two previously unreleased versions of songs from the film’s soundtrack. Also included is the original artwork, new photographs and liner notes.

Conductor: Percy Faith
Record Label: Columbia Records (USA)
Format: 12″ Mono LP (#CL-710)
Highest US Chart Position: #1