Love Is a Gentle Thing

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work

Love Is a Gentle Thing was released in 1959 on RCA Victor. The album consists of folk songs of varied moods, sung in a tender style. Two arrangers and conductors, Alan Greene and Bob Corman, divided the pieces between them. Edward Welker was the producer, David Stone Martin drew the sleeve and Paul Ackerman wrote the liner notes.

There are songs by a variety of writers, such as Times Are Gettin' Hard by Lee Hays of The Weavers and Go Away from My Window by John Jacob Niles. The album reached eighteenth place on Billboard's chart for mono albums. In March 1959 Billboard named it one of the week's winners and praised the sensitive singing. The AllMusic reviewer thought the songs by Hays and by Niles the best pieces, but found the variety limited.

Listening

Track list

1. 1Fifteen (Theme of "The World, the Flesh and the Devil")2:52Apple Music ↗
2. 2I Never Will Marry2:46Apple Music ↗
3. 3I'm Goin' Away3:09Apple Music ↗
4. 4Small One2:55Apple Music ↗
5. 5Bella Rosa3:26Apple Music ↗
6. 6All My Trials4:38Apple Music ↗
7. 7Green Grow the Lilacs3:55Apple Music ↗
8. 8Times Are Gettin' Hard3:38Apple Music ↗
9. 9Turn Around2:24Apple Music ↗
10. 10Go 'Way from My Window3:09Apple Music ↗
11. 11Delia's Gone4:35Apple Music ↗
12. 12Walkin' On the Green Grass3:18Apple Music ↗

30-second previews via Apple Music. Listen to the whole album on Apple Music ↗

See also

• Harry Belafonte