This Thing Called Love (album)

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This Thing Called Love
This Thing Called Love Sands.jpeg
Studio album by
Released1959
Recorded1959
Genre Traditional pop
Label Capitol T1123
Tommy Sands chronology
Sands Storm
(1958)
This Thing Called Love
(1959)
When I'm Thinking of You
(1959)

This Thing Called Love is a 1959 album by American singer Tommy Sands, arranged by Bob Bain. [1] [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The initial Billboard magazine review from February 23, 1959 awarded the album four stars and commented that "Should I", "Don't Blame Me", "All Over Again", and "Sunday" "reveal a new side of the versatile young chanter" and that the "set can attract buys from adult and teen buyers". [3]

Track listing

  1. "You're Driving Me Crazy" (Walter Donaldson)
  2. "I Only Have Eyes For You" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren)
  3. "Don't Blame Me" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields)
  4. "All I Do Is Dream of You" (Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed)
  5. "All Over Again" (Tommy Edwards)
  6. "I'm Confessin'" (Al Neiburg, Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds)
  7. "Should I?" (Brown, Freed)
  8. "I'm Yours" (Robert Mellin)
  9. "Sunday" (Chester Conn, Benny Krueger, Ned Miller, Jule Styne)
  10. "My Happiness" (Betty Peterson Blasco, Borney Bergantine)
  11. "That Old Feeling" (Sammy Fain, Lew Brown)
  12. "Afraid"

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 This Thing Called Love at AllMusic
  2. "Tommy Sands – This Thing Called Love at Discogs". discogs.com. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  3. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (23 February 1959). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p.  34. ISSN   0006-2510.{{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)