Songfacts®:

• "Because I Love You (The Postman Song)" was penned by Stevie B's friend, Warren Allen Brooks. In the song, Stevie gets a letter in the mail, and in response, writes a song to express his love to the sender.
  
  "People think this song about a man trying desperately to hold on to his girl, but it's not," Brooks told Songfacts. "It's a spiritual song. It's about me and God having a conversation, and God telling me that he got my letter and he'd be with me any time I needed him."
• The song was a huge hit in America, #1 for four weeks throughout December of 1990. It was the first #1 hit for LMR, a small New York-based label. That four-week run tied it for longest of the year with "Vision Of Love" by Mariah Carey and "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinéad O'Connor.
• Florida native Stevie B (real name Steven Bernard Hill of Cuban descent) was a leading light on the Latin freestyle music scene. He enjoyed eight American Top 40 hits, but this was his sole chart entry in the UK. Unusually for a 1980s dance artist, Stevie wrote and produced most of his own music.
• Freestyle music was a form of electronic music that utilized Latin rhythms and melodies. In the late '80s and early '90s Freestyle was the most popular musical genre for young English-speaking Latinos in Florida and New York. Other popular Freestyle artists included Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam and Exposé. In the early '90s many of these artists, under pressure from their record labels, started recording adult-contemporary ballads to achieve greater commercial success, "Because I Love You" being a prime example.
• This is a rare song with a subtitle that appears just once in the verse section of the lyrics. The opening line, "I got your letter from the postman just the other day" proved to be a powerful phrase. The song became better known as "The Postman Song" instead of the more common title "Because I Love You."
• The song dates back to 1983, when Warren Allen Brooks came up with the first verse. In 1985, he and Stevie B formed a duo called Friday Friday that released a single, "Boy Toy." Brooks played what he had of "Because I Love You" to Stevie back then, but the song wasn't finished.
  
  A few years later, Stevie B made an impact on the freestyle scene with songs he wrote himself, including "Spring Love (Come Back to Me)" and "In My Eyes." He and Brooks reconnected in 1989, and when they started working together, the first song Stevie asked about was "Because I Love You." Brooks finished the song and Stevie recorded it, landing a surprise hit. Brooks also wrote Stevie B's hit "Love And Emotion."
• Warren Allen Brooks played all the instruments on the track. The piano is a Korg M1 synthesizer, which doesn't sound very synthetic. "It doesn't sound electronic because that's the way I played it," Brooks told Songfacts. "That's me. I'm gifted."