“I Love You Always Forever” by Donna Lewis, Saturday, July 20, 2024 (repost)
In 1996, Welsh singer-songwriter Donna Lewis released her debut single " I Love You Always Forever ." The understated, delicate pop song became an international hit. In the United States, it hit number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 , unable to take the top spot because of multiple versions that counted as Los Del Rio 's version of " Macarena ," the dance track that plagued '96. Lewis never matched the success of her debut single. SECRET MOMENTS SHUT IN THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON. Donna Lewis wrote the song "I Love You Always Forever" basing it on a 1953 novel, Love for Lydia by Herbert Ernest Bates. The lines from the chorus "I love you always forever, near and far closer together" appear in the novel, and Lewis' original title for the song was "Lydia." While Lewis had a few other minor hits, such as " At the Beginning ," a duet with Richard Marx on the 1997 song for the Anastasia original soundtrack