Love You I Do

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Name = Love You I Do


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Artist = Jennifer Hudson
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Released = December 5, 2006
track_no = 5
Recorded = The Underlab, Los Angeles
Genre = R&B, soul
Length = 2:49
Writer = Henry Krieger
Siedah Garrett
Label = Music World/Columbia
Producer = The Underdogs
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prev = "Steppin' to the Bad Side"
prev_no = 4
next = "I Want You Baby"
next_no = 6
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"Love You I Do" is a song performed by American R&B singer Jennifer Hudson in the 2006 film "Dreamgirls". The music for the song was written by Henry Krieger, composer of the original Broadway play, with lyrics by Siedah Garrett. It is one of the four songs featured in the film that are not present in the original Broadway play. It was nominated for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Original Song, and won the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.

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"Love You I Do" is soul song inspired by the early 1960s work of female singers such as Aretha Franklin and Mary Wells.

In the context of the film, the song is performed in a scene set in 1963 by soul singer Effie White (Hudson), and expresses Effie's romantic feelings for her boyfriend and record label head, Curtis Taylor Jr. (Jamie Foxx).

Produced by The Underdogs, "Love You I Do" was one of three "Dreamgirls" songs nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song at the 79th Academy Awards; the others were "Patience" and "Listen". At the Academy Awards ceremony, Hudson performed "Love You I Do" as a duet with her co-star, Beyoncé Knowles. All three songs lost to "I Need to Wake Up" by Melissa Etheridge from the film "An Inconvenient Truth".