Country Love Songs (Vic Damone album)

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Country Love Songs
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1965
Genre Traditional pop, country pop, vocal pop
Length30:01
Label Warner
Producer Jimmy Bowen
Vic Damone chronology
You Were Only Fooling
(1965)
Country Love Songs
(1965)
Stay with Me
(1966)

Country Love Songs is a studio album by American singer Vic Damone, released by Warner Records in July 1965. his final album for the label

Contents

Like Damone's prior album You Were Only Fooling, It was produced by Jimmy Bowen. Neither of the two Bowen-produced albums were a commercial success either aesthectically or at the cashbox Bowen's attempts to get undividual members of the Rat Pack back on AM radio at the time. [1]

The album was released on compact disc by Collectables Records on August 12, 2003 as a double album pairing it with Damone's 1965 Warner debut, You Were Only Fooling . [2]

Reception

Billboard said Damone retains "the country flavor" of the song selection while enhancing them with his own pop style in "this change of pace album" for the singer. [3]

Cash Box said "the smooth voice of Damone" on this LP brings "plenty of appeal for pop and good music spinners" and "enough attraction to send it soaring up the best seller charts." [4]

The Asbury Park Evening Press said Damone "seems very much out of place in his Nashville musical setting", claiming "the songs sound insipid" and Damone "ridiculous". [5]

Track listing

Side one

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)"Jimmie Hodges2:35
2."A Fool Such as I"William Trader3:06
3."Room Full of Roses" Tim Spencer 3:25
4."Together Again" Buck Owens 2:33
5."I Really Don't Want to Know"Howard Barnes, Don Robertson 3:02

Side two

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Faded Love" Bob Wills, John Wills, Billy Jack Wills2:33
2."You Don't Know Me" Eddy Arnold, Cindy Walker 3:39
3."Bouquet of Roses" Steve Nelson, Bob Hilliard 2:57
4."Crazy" Willie Nelson 3:13
5."You Win Again" Hank Williams 2:58

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References

  1. Friedwald, Will (2010). A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers. Pantheon Books. p. 133. ISBN   9780375421495.
  2. "Vic Damone – You Were Only Fooling/Country Love Songs". AllMusic . Retrieved January 2, 2024.
  3. "Album Reviews: Pop Spotlight". Billboard . Vol. 77, no. 34. August 21, 1965. p. 60.
  4. "Album Reviews". Cash Box . Vol. 27, no. 27. August 21, 1965. p. 30.
  5. "Record Previews". Asbury Park Press . December 18, 1965. p. 5. Retrieved January 12, 2024 via Newspapers.com.