Released 1980 Label CBS Records | Length 33:49 Producer Dick Peirce Release date 1980 | |
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Genres Traditional pop music, Soft rock Similar Close Enough for Love, B Sides and Rarities, Million Seller Songs, Nashville, The Andy Williams Sound of | ||
Andy williams original alum collection 1980 let s love while we can
Let's Love While We Can is an album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in the U.K. in 1980 by CBS Records. For this project Williams eschews covering well-known pop hits and standards and relies mostly on original or lesser-known country songs.
Contents
- Andy williams original alum collection 1980 let s love while we can
- Barbara fairchild let s love while we can
- Side one
- Side two
- Song information
- Personnel
- Musicians
- References
On June 21, 2004, Let's Love While We Can became available as one of two albums on one CD by Sony Music Distribution, the other album being Williams's Columbia release from the fall of 1974, You Lay So Easy on My Mind. Two songs from this album, "Jason" and "I'll Never Love Anyone Anymore", were included as bonus tracks on the 2002 CD release of Williams's previous album, Andy.
Barbara fairchild let s love while we can
Side one
- "Let's Love While We Can" (Ronny Scaife) - 2:49
- "Only Everything" (Randy Goodrum) - 3:32
- "Jason" (Deborah Kay Hupp, Robert E. Morrison) - 3:12
- "Beside Me" (Randy Goodrum) - 2:24
- "If I Were a Singer" (Marty Cooper) - 3:29
- "Railway Hotel" (Mike Batt) - 3:11
Side two
- "I Don't Want to Be in Love" (Charlie Black, Rory Michael Bourke) - 3:31
- "Love Is a Cold Wind" (Charlie Black, Rory Michael Bourke) - 3:53
- "Regrets" (Barbara Myrick) - 3:15
- "If I Reach for You" (Charlie Black, Mike Lawler) - 3:37
- "It Was Time" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) - 4:13
- "I'll Never Love Anyone Anymore" (Laurie Andrew, Cedric Chiles) - 2:46
Song information
Barbara Fairchild entered the Country singles chart with "Let's Love While We Can" in the issue of Billboard magazine dated May 10, 1975, and reached number 52 over the course of 10 weeks. "Railway Hotel" first appeared on Mike Batt's 1977 album Schizophonia, and "Love Is a Cold Wind" was recorded by Roy Orbison for his 1979 album Laminar Flow. "Beside Me" by Steve Wariner made its first appearance on the Country singles chart in the August 4, 1979, issue of Billboard and got as high as number 60 during its seven weeks there. James Brown's recording of "Regrets" debuted on the Billboard R&B chart in the issue of the magazine dated January 26, 1980, and began a six-week run that took the song to number 63, and Kenny Rankin entered the Adult Contemporary chart with the song six months later, in the July 19 issue, and peaked at number 33 during his seven weeks there.