I Want You (Hold On to Love)

"I Want You (Hold On to Love)"
Single by CeeLo Green
from the album The Lady Killer
ReleasedJune 5, 2011
Recorded2010
Genre
Length3:36
LabelElektra
Songwriter(s)Callaway, Fraser T Smith, Jack Splash, VLJ
Producer(s)Fraser T Smith, Jack Splash
CeeLo Green singles chronology
"Bright Lights Bigger City"
(2011) 		"I Want You (Hold On to Love)"
(2011) 		"Cry Baby"
(2011)

"I Want You" is a song by American recording artist CeeLo Green, from his third studio album The Lady Killer. The song was released via digital download and CD single on June 5, 2011.[1] French TV channel Canal+ featured a live concert on Nov. 12, 2010, a few days after the release of the album, in which a version close to the later single was performed.[2] The single version of the track is a slightly different remix of the track, and has been issued under the title "I Want You (Hold On to Love)", to distinguish it from the album version. The single version incorporates a sample of Saint Tropez's 1978 track "Hold on to Love".[3] The music video for the song was premiered on May 27 through Cee Lo Green's official YouTube channel. The song is featured on the Compilation album Now 79 despite only peaking at No. 90 on the UK Singles Chart, although it peaked at No. 27 on the UK R&B Chart.

  1. ^ Play UK UK (5 June 2011). "Play.com – Buy Cee Lo Green – I Want You". Play.com. Archived from the original on 25 May 2024. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
  2. ^ "Cee Lo – I Want You (alternate bridge) live in France +lyrics". YouTube. Retrieved 2013-03-20.
  3. ^ "Cee-Lo Green's I Want You sample of Saint Tropez's Hold on to Love". WhoSampled. 2011-03-26. Retrieved 2011-10-28.