Ron Holden's
"Love You So" is a mesmerizing, metronomic record that
Brian Eno might have consulted while composing
Another Green World's
"Golden Hours." Bob Keane of
Del-Fi Records purchased the
"Love You So" master and released it nationally on his
Donna subsidiary in 1960, yielding a Top Ten
pop hit.
Holden's album of the same name contains
"Love You So" and its B-side,
"My Babe," as well as
"Gee, But I'm Lonesome," a follow-up single that "bubbled under"
Billboard's Top 100. Future
Beach Boy Bruce Johnston, with nary a trace of his later surf 'n' sand predilections, wrote or co-wrote every song on
Love You So with the exception of the two sides of
Holden's first
Donna single. The songs include straight-ahead rockers (
"My Babe," "Your Line Is Busy"),
pop ballads (the lovely
"Let No One Tell You"), and a pair of
"Love You So" clones that make use of the same herky-jerky rhythm and minimalist woodblock percussion. [
Del-Fi reissued
Love You So on CD in 1994 with the first five songs appearing in stereo.] ~ Greg Adams