Released June 1991 Label Mushroom Records | Genre Pop/rock | |
B-side "Deborah Conway's Nightmare #347” Format Vinyl/CD single/cassette Writer(s) Deborah Conway and Scott Cutler | ||
"It's Only the Beginning" is a song by Australian singer songwriter Deborah Conway. It was released as the first single from her debut studio album String of Pearls (1991). It peaked at number 19 in Australia in August 1991.
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When Conway and Cutler first completed the song, Conway said she felt 'embarrassed'. She said “It’s so happy, I can’t cope, what am I doing?” she lamented to her former Do-Re-Me]] partner, Bray. Together they rewrote the song. “I tried to cloak it, disguise its happiness,” Conway recalls. But she finally gave in to joy in that instance. “The recorded version is the original lyric without the de-happifying of it.”
At the ARIA Music Awards of 1992, the song was nominated for four awards. 'Single of the Year' and 'Song of the Year' losing out to Yothu Yindi's "Treaty" and 'Breakthrough Artist - single' losing out to Baby Animals' "Early Warning, while Richard Pleasance was nominated for Producer of the Year but lost to Simon Hussey.
Track listings
- "It's Only The Beginning"
- "Deborah Conway's Nightmare #347"