Love Is Just a Game (album)

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Love Is Just a Game
Larry Gatlin Love is a Gamr.jpg
Studio album by
Released1977
StudioCreative Workshop, Nashville; American Studios, Nashville
Genre Country
Label Monument
Producer Fred 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 music 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]

Contents

Track listing

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

Production

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References

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