"I Really Love You" is a song written by Leroy Swearingen and originally recorded by his Steubenville, Ohio

Steubenville, Ohio

Steubenville is a city located along the Ohio River in Jefferson County, Ohio on the Ohio-West Virginia border in the United States. It is the political county seat of Jefferson County. It is also a principal city of the Weirton–Steubenville, WV-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area...

, vocal group called The Stereos

The Stereos

The Stereos were an American pop/rock/doo-wop group from Steubenville, Ohio.They began as The Buckeyes around 1955 with members Bruce Robinson and Ronnie Collins, and released two singles on the Cincinnati label Deluxe Records in 1957...

 in 1961. The record, issued on Cub Records, a subsidiary of MGM Records

MGM Records

MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946, for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films. Later it became a pop label, lasting into the 1970s...

, reached number 29 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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Top 40 chart. The lead singer on the original was Ronnie Collins.

Later on, the song was covered by the former Beatle George Harrison

George Harrison

George Harrison, MBE was an English musician, guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other...

in his 1982 studio album Gone Troppo, and was also released as a single exclusively in the United States, but failed to chart.