Love Is Only Feeling

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Love Is Only Feeling
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1981
Recorded1981
StudioUtopia Studios, London [1]
Genre Folk
Length39:30
Label RCA (West Germany)
Producer Donovan Leitch
Donovan chronology
Neutronica
(1980)
Love Is Only Feeling
(1981)
Lady of the Stars
(1984)

Love Is Only Feeling is the sixteenth studio album (eighteenth overall) by Scottish singer/songwriter Donovan. It was released in West Germany (RCA PL 28472) in October 1981, in Italy in January 1982 (Bubble Record, BLU 19610) and belatedly in the UK (RCA PL 28472) in 1983.

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History

In 1981, Donovan entered the studio to record the second album of his German RCA contract. The resulting album, Love Is Only Feeling, did not see a US release, but was released in the UK in 1983. The title track is a remake of "Someone's Singing" originally released on A Gift from a Flower to a Garden .

Donovan sang Love Is Only Feeling at Festival di Sanremo 1982 with his daughter Astrella.

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Track listing

All tracks by Donovan Leitch.

Original album

Side one

  1. "Lady of the Flowers" – 3:10
  2. "Lover O Lover" – 3:53
  3. "The Actor" – 4:05
  4. "Half Moon Bay" – 3:55
  5. "The Hills of Tuscany" – 4:08

Side two

  1. "Lay Down Lassie" – 4:15
  2. "She" – 4:01
  3. "Johnny Tuff" – 4:58
  4. "Love Is Only Feeling" – 3:04
  5. "Marjorie Margerine" – 4:01

Personnel

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References

  1. album liner notes (RCA PL 28472)