I Don't Want to Talk About It
| "I Don't Want to Talk About It" | |
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| Song by Crazy Horse from the album Crazy Horse | |
| Released | February 1971 |
| Genre | Country rock |
| Length | 5:18 |
| Label | Reprise |
| Writer(s) | Danny Whitten |
| Producer(s) | Jack Nitzsche, Russ Titelman |
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| Single by Rod Stewart | ||||||||
| from the album Atlantic Crossing | ||||||||
| B-side | "The First Cut Is the Deepest" "The Best Days of My Life" (US) |
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| Released | 1977 (Europe) 1979 (US) |
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| Format | 7" single | |||||||
| Recorded | 1975 | |||||||
| Genre | Rock | |||||||
| Length | 4:13 (single version) | |||||||
| Label | Riva | |||||||
| Writer(s) | Danny Whitten | |||||||
| Producer(s) | Tom Dowd | |||||||
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"I Don't Want to Talk About It" is a song written by Danny Whitten. It was first recorded by Crazy Horse and issued as the final track on side one of their 1971 eponymous album. It was Whitten's signature tune, but gained more fame via its numerous cover versions, especially that by Rod Stewart.
In 1975, Rod Stewart recorded the song at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama, for his album Atlantic Crossing. This became successful when it was released as a single. In the United States, it became a top fifty hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1980 (#46 pop and #44 adult contemporary). In the United Kingdom, it topped the UK Singles Chart as a double A-side with "The First Cut Is the Deepest" in 1977.
In 1989, Stewart recorded a new version of "I Don't Want to Talk About It" for Storyteller – The Complete Anthology: 1964–1990. It was later included on Downtown Train – Selections from the Storyteller Anthology and released as a single in 1990. It received extensive airplay on adult contemporary radio stations in the United States as an album cut, reaching number two on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. Stewart also sang this song as a duet with Amy Belle during his 2004 tour and it is included in his concert DVD.
In June 1988, Everything but the Girl released their version as a single and featured from the 1988 album Idlewild. This also met with success in the UK, peaking at number three on the UK Singles Chart. It was their first British top ten hit and would remain their only one until 1995, when the remix of "Missing" also peaked at number three. Tracey Thorn has said that Stewart had been regarded as "a heroic figure" in her home when she was growing up, and that her brother Keith owned the "albums with grimy-sounding titles like An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down, and Gasoline Alley". She herself had "always liked Atlantic Crossing."
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