Country Love Songs (Vic Damone album)

Country Love Songs
Studio album by Vic Damone
Released	July 1965
Genre	Traditional pop, country
Length	30:01
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 the twentieth studio album by American singer Vic Damone released by Warner Records in July 1965. ^[1]

Background

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 individual members of the Rat Pack back on AM radio at the time. ^[2]

Chart performance

The album debuted on the Cash Box looking ahead albums chart in the issue dated September 4, 1965, and remained on the chart for seven weeks, peaking at number 117. ^[3] It debuted on the Record World looking ahead albums chart in the issue dated September 11, 1965, and remained on the chart for eleven weeks, peaking at number 115. ^[4]

Compact disc

The album was released on compact disc by Collectables Records on August 12, 2003, as a double album paired with Damone's 1965 Warner debut, You Were Only Fooling . ^[5]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[6]

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. ^[7]

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." ^[8]

Record World called it a "rewarding disk" and noted that "The other cuts are top notchers too", with them being: "Someday You'll Want Me to Want You," "You Don't Know Me" and "You Win Again". ^[9]

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". ^[10]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)"	Jimmie Hodges	2:35
2.	"A Fool Such as I"	William Trader	3:06
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.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Faded Love"	Bob Wills, John Wills, Billy Jack Wills	2:33
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

Charts

Chart (1965)	Peak position
US Cashbox Looking Ahead Albums [3]	117
US Record World Looking Ahead LP's [4]	115

References

1. "Vic Damone – Country Love Songs". AllMusic . Retrieved December 9, 2024.
2. Friedwald, Will (2010). A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers. Pantheon Books. p. 133. ISBN   9780375421495.
3. Cashbox Looking Ahead Albums, September 25, 1965 page 29, retrieved October 28, 2025
4. "Record World 100 Top LP's" (PDF). Record World . Vol. 20, no. 955. September 25, 1965. p. 22. Retrieved October 28, 2025– via worldradiohistory.com.
5. "Vic Damone – You Were Only Fooling/Country Love Songs". AllMusic . Retrieved January 2, 2024.
6. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 392. ISBN   9781846098567 . Retrieved August 31, 2024.
7. "Album Reviews Pop Spotlight: Country Love Songs". Billboard . Vol. 77, no. 34. August 21, 1965. p. 60.
8. "Cashbox Album Pop Picks Reviews: Country Love Songs". Cash Box . Vol. 27, no. 27. August 21, 1965. p. 30.
9. "Record World Album Reviews, Pick Hits" (PDF). Record World . Vol. 20, no. 950. August 21, 1965. p. 8. Retrieved October 28, 2025– via worldradiohistory.com.
10. "Record Previews". Asbury Park Press . December 18, 1965. p. 5. Retrieved January 12, 2024– via Newspapers.com.