Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)

Wilson wrote the song alone, and it was produced by Hal Davis and Marc Gordon for Motown's Soul label in Los Angeles, with "Sweeter as the Days Go By" on the B-side. It runs 2:31. Wilson was working in Motown's Los Angeles office and wanted to record it himself. A union contract found by researcher Adam White gives Saturday, October 9, 1965, at Harmony Recorders on North Vine Street in Los Angeles, naming Victor Feldman on vibes and Earl Palmer on drums among the players; other accounts, citing the label's own history, place the session at Sound Recorders with a different list of musicians. Which is right is unsettled.

The tape was mixed in Detroit in November 1965 and a release was planned for late December, but Gordy asked Wilson to choose between performing and producing. Wilson picked producing, and the single was pulled. Estimates of how many demos were pressed vary from about six to about 250, and only a few are known to survive. Wilson said later he had no idea an original copy existed.

In November 1977 acetates of the song began circulating in England under the false name Eddie Foster, and it was played at Wigan Casino; bootlegs followed in early 1978. An official release came in Britain on Tamla Motown TMG 1170 in November 1979. A surviving copy sold at auction in 2009 for about 25,742 pounds.

Chris Clark recorded her own vocal over the track in the 1960s, unissued until 2001. Bruce Springsteen's version, on Only the Strong Survive (2022), was produced by Ron Aniello and Springsteen, and the cover set off a public argument in the northern soul world about who had first saved the original from obscurity.