L-O-V-E

"L-O-V-E"
Single by Joss Stone
from the album Introducing Joss Stone (Special Edition Bonus CD)
A-side	Baby Baby Baby (UK CD Single)
Released	18 September 2007
Format	Digital download
Recorded	2007
Genre	Jazz, soul
Length	2:48
Label	Virgin
Writer(s)	Bert Kaempfert, Milt Gabler
Producer	Raphael Saadiq
Joss Stone singles chronology
"Tell Me What We're Gonna Do Now" (2007) "L-O-V-E" (2007) "Baby Baby Baby" (2007/2008)

"L-O-V-E" is a jazz song written by Bert Kaempfert and Milt Gabler for American singer-pianist Nat King Cole's 1965 album L-O-V-E (the last album released before Cole's death on February 15, 1965). The song had already been an instrumental track on Kaempfert's Blue Midnight album in 1964.

Nat King Cole also recorded a version of "L-O-V-E" in a combination of Italian, French, Spanish, German and Japanese.

Covers [edit]

The song has been covered by several artists, including Cole's daughter, Natalie Cole; Michael Bublé; Chelsea Krombach; and Joss Stone. Stone's version was released worldwide on the iTunes Store on September 18, 2007, and reached number one hundred on the UK Singles Chart the week of November 17, 2007, spending only one week on the chart. Stone performed a duet of the song with Natalie Cole at Frosted Pink, an ABC-televised benefit concert to raise awareness of women's cancer, held at the Santa Monica Airport in Santa Monica, California, on October 6, 2007. Ukulele music artist Julia Nunes also did a cover that got posted to her official Youtube channel as a special Valentine's Day cover.

In 2008 Jools Holland recorded a version of "L-O-V-E" for his album The Informer with Rico Rodriguez singing lead vocals. It is a song that Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra have performed for several years now.

In 2011, the 16-year old, Catalan talent Andrea Motis performed the song on the TV channel Canal 33, singing the lead vocal and playing trumpet along with her music tutor Joan Chamarro and the Sant Andreu Jazz Band from Barcelona, the youngest jazz band in Europe at the time.

In popular culture [edit]

• A recording by Natalie Cole, originally from her 1991 album Unforgettable... with Love, is featured in the 2005 film Bewitched
• Featured in the film Sleepless in Seattle
• Briefly sung by Bruce Campbell in an episode of the television series Jack of All Trades, although he changes the lyrics because he forgets what O stands for
• Sung by Drew Carey in an episode of the television series The Drew Carey Show
• Featured in the French film He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (À la folie... pas du tout) starring Audrey Tatou
• Featured in the 1998 film The Parent Trap
• Featured in the film The Little Rascals
• Featured in the film How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
• Featured in the film Why Did I Get Married?
• Featured in the film The Girl From Monaco
• Featured in the film Lars and the Real Girl
• Featured in the film I Don't Know How She Does It
• Covered by Darren Criss when performing live as it is a well-known favourite of his.
• Covered by Kim Hee-Sun in the Korean drama (broadcast on MBC) Sad Love Story
• Covered by Glee in the season three episode "Heart". Sung by Harry Shum, Jr. and Jenna Ushkowitz as Mike Chang and his girlfriend Tina Cohen-Chang.
• Featured at the end of the season eleven episode Valentine's Day in Quahog of Family Guy.

Charts (Joss Stone version) [edit]

References [edit]

External links [edit]

• Full lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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