| It's Only the Beginning | |
| Cover: | It's_Only_the_Beginning_by_Deborah_Conway.jpg |
| Caption: | CD single cover |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Deborah Conway |
| Album: | String of Pearls |
| B-Side: | Deborah Conway's Nightmare #347 |
| Released: | June 1991 |
| Label: | Mushroom |
| Producer: | Richard Pleasance |
| Prev Title: | Feel Like Makin' Love |
| Prev Year: | 1990 |
| Next Title: | Under My Skin |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
"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), and peaked at number 19 in Australia in August 1991. 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.[1]
The song was written by Deborah Conway and American songwriter Scott Cutler. When the song was first completed, Conway said she felt "embarrassed", lamenting to her former Do-Re-Mi bandmate Dorland Bray: "It's so happy, I can't cope, what am I doing?". Together, they rewrote the song. "I tried to cloak it, disguise its happiness," Conway recalls, but she finally gave in to the joy of it. "The recorded version is the original lyric without the de-happifying of it."[2]
7-inch, CD, and cassette single[3] [4] [5]