Love Is a Gentle Thing

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Love Is a Gentle Thing
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Studio album by
Released1959
Recorded1958
Genre Vocal
Length41:36
Label RCA Victor
Producer Ed Welker
Harry Belafonte chronology
Belafonte Sings the Blues
(1958)
Love Is a Gentle Thing
(1959)
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall
(1959)
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Love Is a Gentle Thing is an album by Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Victor in 1959. It was recorded with arranger / conductors Alan Greene and Bob Corman.

Contents

Billboard magazine chose Love Is a Gentle Thing as one of their "Spotlight Winners of the Week" in March 1959, and wrote that "Belafonte displays his usual tender, feelingful vocal style on a group of expressive folk themes with varying moods...Striking cover". [2]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Fifteen" (Alan Greene, Robert Nemeroff) – 2:50
  2. "I Never Will Marry" (Fred Brooks) – 2:44
  3. "I'm Goin' Away" (Alan Greene) – 3:08
  4. "Small One" (Lewis Allan, Alan Greene) – 2:53
  5. "Bella Rosa" (Lord Burgess) – 3:25
  6. "All My Trials" (Rita Greene, C. C. Carter) – 4:37

Side two

  1. "Green Grow the Lilacs" (Fred Brooks) – 3:55
  2. "Times are Gettin' Hard" (Lee Hays) – 3:36
  3. "Turn Around" (Malvina Reynolds, Alan Greene) – 2:23
  4. "Go Away from My Window" (John Jacob Niles) – 3:09
  5. "Delia's Gone" (Bob Corman, Milt Okun)– 4:34
  6. "Walkin' on the Green Grass" (Fred Brooks) – 3:22

Personnel

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (23 March 1959). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. ISSN   0006-2510.{{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)