Love Is Just a Game (album)

Love Is Just a Game
Studio album by Larry Gatlin
Released	1977
Genre	Country
Label	Monument Records
Producer	Fred Foster
Larry Gatlin chronology
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Love Is Just a Game is the fifth studio album by American country singer Larry Gatlin (Larry Wayne Gatlin born May 2, 1948) issued on Monument Records in 1977. The album reached number 7 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and the title track single "Love Is Just a Game" reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and number 6 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.^[1]

Track listing

All songs written by Larry Gatlin.

Side 1

1. "Love Is Just a Game" – 3:30
2. "Tomorrow" – 2:32
3. "Anything but Leavin'" – 2:44
4. "If Practice Makes Perfect" – 3:27
5. "Everytime a Plane Flies Over Our House" – 2:59

Side 2

1. "I Just Wish You Were Someone I Love" – 3:10
2. "Kiss It All Goodbye" – 2:41
3. "I Don't Wanna Cry" – 2:46
4. "It's Love at Last" – 2:56
5. "Steps" – 3:03
6. "Alleluia" – 2:00

Personnel

• Grady Martin, Reggie Young, John Christopher, James Colvard, Jerry Steve Smith, Pete Wade, Steve Gatlin, Rudy Gatlin - guitar
• Gene Chrisman, Phillip Fajardo - drums
• Tommy Cogbill - bass
• Bobby Emmons, Bobby Wood, Shane Keister, William Lee Golden, Jr. - keyboards
• Lloyd Green, Michael G. Smith - steel guitar
• Farrell Morris - percussion
• Lisa Silver - fiddle
• Sheldon Kurland, Carl Gorodetzky, Lenny Haight, George Binkley III, Steven Maxwell Smith, Christian Teal, Marvin D. Chantry, Gary Vanosdale, Byron T. Bach, Roy Christensen, Wilfred Lehmann, Ann R. Migliore - strings
• Bill Justis - string arrangements

Production

• Produced by Fred Foster
• Recorded at: Creative Workshop and American Studio.
• Engineers: Brent Maher and Don Cobb.
• Photography & Art Direction: Ken Kim.

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