For Your Precious Love

Album

Simply Love

Label

Vee-Jay Records

Genre

Rhythm & Blues

Composer(s)

Arthur Brooks;Richard Brooks;Jerry Butler

Entered Chart

Jun 16, 1958

Peak Date

Jul 21, 1958

Released

1958

Recorded

1958 Studio Universal Recording Corp. (Chicago)

Catalog #

Abner/Falcon 1013

B-Side

Sweet Was The Wine

"For Your Precious Love" is a song written by Arthur Brooks, Richard Brooks and Jerry Butler, and performed by Jerry Butler and The Impressions in 1958. It was released as a single on Vee-Jay Records and peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores and Top 100 charts. The song was ranked #335 on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2010. The song has been covered numerous times with many versions reaching the US charts as well, including a new version by Butler himself, who peaked at number 99 on the Hot 100 chart in March 1966. The 1968 version in South Africa by Durban group, The Flames, reached the top spot on the local charts and has been considered a classic in the country ever since.

Your precious love means more to me
Than any love could ever be.
For when I wanted you,
I was so lonely and blue,
For that's what love will do
And darling, I'm so surprised,
Oh, when I first realized
That you were fooling me.
And darling, they say that our love won't grow.
But I just want to tell them they don't know.
For as long as you're in love with me,
Our love will grow wider,
Deeper than any sea.
And of all the things that I want,
In this whole wide world, is
Just for you to say that you'll be my girl.
Wanting you, I'm so lonely and blue.
That's what love will do.