The Love Game (song)

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"The Love Game"
The Love Game (Single Cover).jpg
Single by John Paul Young
from the album Hero
ReleasedSeptember 1975
Genre Pop
Length3:30
Label Albert Productions
Songwriter(s)
  • Harry Vanda
  • George Young
Producer(s)
John Paul Young singles chronology
"Yesterday's Hero"
(1975)
"The Love Game"
(1975)
"I Hate the Music"
(1976)

"The Love Game" is a song by Australian pop singer John Paul Young, released in September 1975 as the second single from his debut studio album, Hero (1975). The song peaked at number 4 on the Australian Kent Music Report. [1]

Contents

Track listing

7" (AP-10907)

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1975/76)Peak
position
Australian (Kent Music Report) [2] [3] 4

Year-end charts

Chart (1975)Position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [3] 44

Personnel

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References

  1. Australian Music Database
  2. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 . St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p. 346. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  3. 1 2 "National Top 100 Singles for 1975". Kent Music Report. 29 December 1975. Retrieved 15 January 2022 via Imgur.