Easy Come Easy Go (George Strait album)

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Easy Come Easy Go
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 28, 1993
RecordedApril 1993
StudioSound Stage Studios and Masterfonics (Nashville, TN); O'Henry Sound Studios (Burbank, CA).
Genre
Length31:32
Label MCA
Producer Tony Brown
George Strait
George Strait chronology
Pure Country
(1992)
Easy Come Easy Go
(1993)
Lead On
(1994)
Singles from Easy Come Easy Go
  1. "Easy Come, Easy Go"
    Released: August 9, 1993
  2. "I'd Like to Have That One Back"
    Released: November 29, 1993
  3. "Lovebug"
    Released: February 28, 1994
  4. "The Man in Love with You"
    Released: June 14, 1994
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Entertainment Weekly B− [3]

Easy Come Easy Go is the fourteenth studio album by American country music artist George Strait. It was released by MCA Records and it produced four singles for Strait on the Hot Country Songs charts: the title track (#1), a cover of George Jones' 1965 hit "Lovebug" (#8), "I'd Like to Have That One Back" (#3), and "The Man in Love with You" (#5).

Contents

Barbra Streisand covered "We Must Be Loving Right" on her 1999 album A Love Like Ours .

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Stay Out of My Arms" Jim Lauderdale 2:35
2."Just Look at Me"Gerald Smith, Curtis Wayne3:08
3."Easy Come, Easy Go" Aaron Barker, Dean Dillon 3:02
4."I'd Like to Have That One Back"Barker, Bill Shore, Rick West3:51
5."Lovebug" Wayne Kemp, Wayne2:50
6."I Wasn't Fooling Around"Lauderdale, John Leventhal 3:00
7."Without Me Around"Dillon, John Northrup3:26
8."The Man in Love with You" Steve Dorff, Gary Harju3:22
9."That's Where My Baby Feels at Home"Kemp, Wayne, Faron Young 2:44
10."We Must Be Loving Right" Clay Blaker, Roger Brown3:34

Personnel

As listed in liner notes. [4]

Production

Charts

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  2. 1 2 Chicago Tribune review
  3. "Entertainment Weekly Review". Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2008-10-25.
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