Love Is Just a Game (album)

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Love Is Just a Game
Studio album by
Released1977
StudioCreative Workshop, Nashville; American Studios, Nashville
GenreCountry
LabelMonument
ProducerFred Foster
Larry Gatlin chronology
Larry Gatlin with Family and Friends
(1976)
Love Is Just a Game
(1977)
Oh Brother
(1978)

Love Is Just a Game is the fifth studio album by American country singer Larry Gatlin issued on Monument Records in 1977. The album reached number 7 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and the title track single "Love Is Just a Game" reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and number 6 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.[1]

Track listing[edit]

All songs written by Larry Gatlin.

Side 1

  1. "Love Is Just a Game" – 3:30
  2. "Tomorrow" – 2:32
  3. "Anything but Leavin'" – 2:44
  4. "If Practice Makes Perfect" – 3:27
  5. "Everytime a Plane Flies Over Our House" – 2:59

Side 2

  1. "I Just Wish You Were Someone I Love" – 3:10
  2. "Kiss It All Goodbye" – 2:41
  3. "I Don't Wanna Cry" – 2:46
  4. "It's Love at Last" – 2:56
  5. "Steps" – 3:03
  6. "Alleluia" – 2:00

Personnel[edit]

  • Grady Martin, Reggie Young, Johnny Christopher, Jimmy Colvard, Jerry Steve Smith, Pete Wade, Steve Gatlin, Rudy Gatlin – guitar
  • Gene Chrisman, Phillip Fajardo – drums
  • Tommy Cogbill – bass
  • Bobby Emmons, Bobby Wood, Shane Keister, William Golden – keyboards
  • Lloyd Green, Michael G. Smith – steel guitar
  • Farrell Morris – percussion
  • Lisa Silver – fiddle
  • Sheldon Kurland, Carl Gorodetzky, Lennie Haight, George Binkley, Steven Smith, Christian Teal, Marvin Chantry, Gary Vanosdale, Byron Bach, Roy Christensen, Wilfred Lehmann, Ann Migliore – strings
  • Bill Justis – string arrangements

Production

  • Produced by Fred Foster
  • Brent Maher and Don Cobb – engineer
  • Ken Kim – photography, art direction

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Larry Gatlin – Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved February 20, 2014.