Say You Love Me (Fleetwood Mac song)

"Say You Love Me" is a song written by singer Christine McVie, for the group Fleetwood Mac's 1975 album, Fleetwood Mac. The song peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks, and remains one of their best known songs. Its success helped the group's eponymous 1975 album to sell over 8 million copies worldwide.

In the UK, "Say You Love Me" was the fourth single from the Fleetwood Mac album, but the first to chart, where it peaked at #40 on the UK Singles chart in September 1976. In Canada, Shirley Eikhard covered "Say You Love Me" and released it as a single several weeks in advance of Fleetwood Mac in early June 1976. Eikhard took the song into the Canadian top 40, peaking at #34; Fleetwood Mac's version, released only a few weeks later, peaked at #29 in September.

During McVie's departure, the song was performed on Fleetwood Mac's Unleashed Tour with Nicks and Buckingham sharing lead vocals.



Contents
[hide]  *1 Background  ==Background[ edit] == Christine wrote this song after her fifth year in the band. During the writing of “Say You Love Me”, Christine McVie was married to John McVie, bassist of Fleetwood Mac.
 * 2 Personnel
 * 3 Cover versions
 * 4 References
 * 5 External links

“Say You Love Me” has been performed on seven of Fleetwood Mac’s tours since its release.[1]  In a rare occurrence, John McVie sang background vocals for the song during The Dance tour.

In addition to its appearance on Fleetwood Mac's self-titled 1975 album, “Say You Love Me” appears on two other compilation albums by Fleetwood Mac: Greatest Hits (1988 Fleetwood Mac album) and 25 Years - The Chain. ==Personnel[ edit] == ==Cover versions<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">In the late half of the 1970s, the song proved to be a popular song to cover in country music. Singer Lynda K. Lance spent five weeks in the fall of 1976 on the American country singles chart with her version, peaking at #93. In the fall of 1979, singer Stephanie Winslow scored the only Top 10 country hit of her career, with her cover reaching #10 on the country charts.
 * Christine McVie - vocals, keyboards
 * Lindsey Buckingham - vocal harmonies, guitar, banjo
 * Stevie Nicks - vocal harmonies
 * John McVie - bass guitar
 * Mick Fleetwood - drums