MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE I LOVE YOU TOO MUCH is an absolutely beautiful love song written by Irving Berlin, which has become a jazz standard. Finding very much information about the song is like trying to find a needle in a haystack, and we are not sure why. There are, however,  some basic facts: it was written in the early 30's, probably around 1933, which is when three versions of the tune made some noise on the charts: Rudy Vallee had a version that reached the Top Ten, but the orchestras of Ray Noble and Leo Reisman also had top 20 versions. The song has also been featured as background music in several films. Two popular singers of the  40's and early 50's, Jack Smith and Dennis Day, each had versions of the song that received a lot of airplay in 1951 and were popular enough to get youtube recordings of their efforts.

As the years progressed, many other artists included the song either in their recorded albums or as a featured song in a film. Fred Astaire did a film version that appeared on one of his albums. The most popular album version was by Nat King Cole in his LOVE IS THE THING, a #1 album seller from 1957. Others who had a measure of success with the tune included Sarah Vaughn in 1959 with her album release VAUGHAN AND VIOLINS and Miss Peggy Lee from her 1961 album, IF YOU GO.

Here, we offer several of the better versions of the song. Pick your favorite.

               
                 RUDY VALLEE    1933

      
    LEO REISMAN ORCHESTRA   1933

           DENNIS DAY  1951

               JACK SMITH  1951

          NAT KING COLE   1957

          SARAH VAUGHAN  1959

         KEIRA KNIGHTLEY 2008

Still Another Version from 1933 by RAY NOBLE and his Orchestra (vocal by Al Bowley)

Still Another (upscale) version from 1957 by Jack Harris performed on Ed Sullivan TV Show
                    (sounds like a combination of Crosby and Sinatra)