[3] After "He's a Rebel" became a hit song, Spector brought the Blossoms back to record "He's Sure the Boy I Love".

After being discredited from "He's a Rebel", Love urged Spector to give her a royalty contract with a rate of three cents per record.

[6] "He's Sure the Boy I Love" was featured on the Crystals' re-released album He's a Rebel and replaced a prior track of theirs that had originally appeared on Twist Uptown.

Cynthia Weil, who co-wrote the song with her husband Barry Mann was unaware that Darlene Love had sung on the track.

[10] Cash Box described it as a "change-of-pace’r...[that] finds the gals in top rockin’ mashed potatoes form" and has a "terrific Jack Nitzsche arrangement.."[11] In February 1963, the song peaked at No.