| Let There Be Love | |
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| Released | March 1, 1993 |
| Genre | Traditional pop |
| Label | Jasmine Records |
Let There Be Love is an album of songs recorded by Joni James as airchecks, [1] released by Jasmine Records on March 1, 1993. While many of the songs included on the album were hits for Joni James in the 1950s, these are different performances.
| Track number | Song title | Songwriter(s) | Orchestra | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let There Be Love | Lionel Rand/Ian Grant | Ralph Marterie | 1:57 |
| 2 | You're My Everything | Harry Warren/Joe Young/Mort Dixon | 2:22 | |
| 3 | You're Fooling Someone | Leo Fox/Wayne Muir/Frank LaVere/Wally Griffith | 1:52 | |
| 4 | Am I in Love? | Ted Varnick | 2:34 | |
| 5 | My Love, My Love | Nicholas Acquaviva/Bob Haymes | 2:29 | |
| 6 | Purple Shades | Lew Douglas/Frank LaVere | 3:01 | |
| 7 | Almost Always | Lew Douglas | 1:54 | |
| 8 | I'll Be Seeing You | Sammy Fain/Irving Kahal | 2:10 | |
| 9 | When We Come of Age | Norman Gimbel | Tony Pastor | 1:50 |
| 10 | These Foolish Things | Harry Link/Holt Marvell/Jack Strachey | 3:13 | |
| 11 | It's the Talk of the Town | Jerry Livingston/Al J. Neiburg/Marty Symes | 2:44 | |
| 12 | Too Late Now | Alan Jay Lerner/Burton Lane | 2:26 | |
| 13 | In Love in Vain | Leo Robin/Jerome Kern | 2:45 | |
| 14 | That Old Feeling | Sammy Fain/Lew Brown | 2:22 | |
| 15 | I'm Through With Love | Gus Kahn/Fud Livingston/Matty Malneck | 2:11 | |
| 16 | Little Girl Blue | Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart | 2:40 |
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