Love You I Do Artistl: Jennifer Hudson Movie: Dreamgirls (2006 film) I never met a man quite like you Doing all he can Making my dreams come true You're strong and you're smart You've taken my heart And I'll give you the rest of me too You're the perfect man for me I Love you I do Hmm I love ya
Never ever felt quite like this good about myself from our very first kiss I'm here when you call you've got it all and confidence like I never knew You're the perfect man for me I love you I do You've got the charm you simply disarm me every time As long as you drive I'm along for the ride your way You said it before There won't be a door that's closed to us putting all my trust in you cuz you, you'll always be true I never could have known This would be Ohhh you and you alone yeah All for me I know you're the best You've passed every test It's almost too good to be true You're the perfect man for me I love you I do You're the perfect man for me I love you I do do Love You I Do From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "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. Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_You_I_Do |