[2] Featuring Ernest Ball's second wife Maude Lambert as the singer, the song was a huge success, and went on to sell a million record copies.
[2][3] M. Witmark & Sons took note of the song's popularity and decided to elevate Ball under a twenty-year contract as staff composer.
[2] Love Me and the World Is Mine has since been used in several movie musicals which include San Francisco (1936), The Strawberry Blonde (1941), Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944), and The Eddie Cantor Story (1953)..[2] Variety magazine, in a fifty-year commemorative issue, selected Love Me and the World Is Mine for its "Hit Parade of a Half-Century (1905–1955)" list for 1906.
Love Me and the World Is Mine uses common 4/4 verses while the "unusually short" chorus is set to 12/8 time.
[2] The lyrics used are described by author Don Tyler as "rather antiquated" and gives "twould", "Yet lo' dear heart", "tis only thee" and "be mine for aye" as examples of this in the song.