Love Is a Gentle Thing

Love Is a Gentle Thing
Studio album by Harry Belafonte
Released 1959
Recorded 1958
Genre Vocal
Length 41:36
Label RCA Victor
Producer Ed Welker
Harry Belafonte chronology
Belafonte Sings the Blues
(1958)
Love is a Gentle Thing
(1959)
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall
(1959)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

Love Is a Gentle Thing is an album by Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Victor in 1959. It was recorded with arranger / conductors Alan Greene and Bob Corman.

Billboard magazine chose Love Is a Gentle Thing as one of their "Spotlight Winners of the Week" in March 1959, and wrote that "Belafonte displays his usual tender, feelingful vocal style on a group of expressive folk themes with varying moods...Striking cover".[2]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Fifteen" – 2:50
  2. "I Never Will Marry" – 2:44
  3. "I'm Goin' Away" – 3:08
  4. "Small One" – 2:53
  5. "Bella Rosa" – 3:25
  6. "All My Trials" – 4:37

Side two

  1. "Green Grow the Lilacs" – 3:55
  2. "Times are Gettin' Hard" – 3:36
  3. "Turn Around" – 2:23
  4. "Go Away from My Window" – 3:09
  5. "Delia's Gone" – 4:34
  6. "Walkin' on the Green Grass" – 3:22

Personnel

References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (23 March 1959). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. ISSN 0006-2510.
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