"I'll Never Stop Loving You" is a popular

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 song

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The music was written by Nicholas Brodzsky

Nicholas Brodzsky

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, the lyrics by Sammy Cahn

Sammy Cahn

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. The song was published in 1955

1955 in music

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The recording by Doris Day

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 was released as Columbia Records

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 as catalog number

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 40505. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts

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 on July 23, 1955. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #13; on the Best Seller chart, at #15; on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached #93 (a misleading figure, because the top-100 list was started by Billboard after the peak of the song's popularity).

British

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 singer, David Whitfield

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, recorded

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 a cover version

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in 1956.