"Coz I Luv You" b/w "My Life Is Natural" is at the top spot on this weeks U.K. chart.
The song was released as a non-album single, penned by lead vocalist Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea, with production by Chas Chandler. Marking the band's first chart-topping single, and stayed within the top 50 for fifteen weeks.
In 1972, a compilation album of the same name would be released outside the UK. The song was included on the compilation and would also feature on the band's 1973 compilation album Sladest.
"Coz I Luv You" features an electric violin played by Lea. The song's creation followed Chandler's insistence that the band write an original song for their next single. One evening, after hearing "Nine By Nine" by the John Dummer Blues Band, Lea arrived at Holder's home with his violin and a song idea inspired by a Django Reinhardt/Stéphane Grappelli "Hot Club" influence. Within half an hour, the duo composed the song, initiating the successful Holder/Lea songwriting partnership that would produce most of Slade's material. The next day, they presented an acoustic version to Chandler, who predicted it would be their first hit and even reach number one.
The band immediately recorded the song at Olympic Studios in Barnes, completing it in two days. Despite Chandler's approval, the band had reservations, finding it too poppy and weak compared to "Get Down and Get with It." To align it more with Slade's style, they added foot-stomping and hand-clapping. They also changed the original title, "Because I Love You," to "Coz I Luv You," reflecting their Black Country dialect and starting Slade's tradition of title misspellings.
In a 1980 interview with Sounds, Lea expressed his initial dislike for the song, considering it too saccharine and a mere album filler, yet it quickly soared to number one. Reflecting on the writing process in a 1984 Record Mirror interview, Lea recounted suggesting to Holder that they write a song, proposing a Stephan Grappelli-style piece, influenced by Marc Bolan's "Hot Love," which was popular at the time.
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