Released 1978 | ||
"If This Is Love" is a song by Joey Travolta recorded for his debut album Joey Travolta in 1977, and released as a single in September 1978. The song was written by Kerry Chater and Robbie Patton and begins:
Guess I'm just afraid, I'm not the kind who makes it last forever...
As Travolta's second single "If This Is Love" failed to make the impact of his first single "I Don't Wanna Go", which had clipped the bottom of the Billboard 150, helped by an appearance on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. Nevertheless the song was simultaneously taken up by Tom Jones for his "sensitive side" album What a Night (1977), then by Randy Edelman as a promo single for his album, You're the One (1979), and by Nigel Olsson on the album Changing Tides (1980). The best known cover, 2 years after Joey Travolta's single, was by Melissa Manchester as a single from the 1980 album For the Working Girl.