Love Is Fair Explained

Love is Fair
Type:	Album
Artist:	Barbara Mandrell
Cover:	Love is fair cover.jpg
Released:	August 29, 1980
Genre:	Country
Label:	MCA Nashville
Producer:	Tom Collins
Prev Title:	The Best of Barbara Mandrell
Prev Year:	1979
Next Title:	Barbara Mandrell Live
Next Year:	1981

Love is Fair is the 10th solo studio album by American country music singer, Barbara Mandrell, released in August 1980.

Love is Fair was Mandrell's first studio album of the decade. The album was successful for Mandrell, spawning four singles. The first single, "Crackers", peaked at #3 on the Country charts in 1980, and also charted on the Bubbling Under/Hot 100, her last single to chart there. The second single, "The Best of Strangers" was another Top 10 Country hit. The third single, "Love is Fair" peaked at #13 on the Country charts. The flip-side of that song, "Sometime, Somewhere, Somehow" charted on the Adult Contemporary charts in the Top 30. The album consisted of 10 tracks, including a cover of the Brenda Lee pop hit "Coming on Strong" and Michael Jackson's hit, "(S)He's Out of My Life".

Love Is Fair peaked at #6 on the Top Country Albums chart and also peaked at #175 on the Billboard 200, her fourth album to peak on the Billboard 200.

Track listing

1. "Love Is Fair" (Dennis Morgan, Kye Fleming)
2. "Crackers" (Morgan, Fleming)
3. "He's Out of My Life" (Tom Bahler)
   • with Randy Wright
4. "Not Tonight, I've Got a Heartache" (David Powelson)
5. "Long Time, No Love" (Morgan, Fleming)
6. "The Best of Strangers" (Morgan, Fleming)
7. "Sometime, Somewhere, Somehow" (Brant Beene, Jack Turner)
8. "My Bonnie Lies Over and Over" (John Schweers, R. C. Bannon)
9. "I'm Afraid He'll Find You (Somewhere in My Heart)" (Kerry Chater, Mitch Johnson)
10. "Coming on Strong" (Little David Wilkins)

Personnel

• Acoustic Guitar

Jimmy Capps, Fred Tackett

• Background Vocals: Lea Jane Berinati, Steve Brantley, Bruce Dees, Larry Keith, Dennis Morgan
• Bass guitar

Mike Leech, Bob Wray

• Drums

Larrie Londin, Kenny Malone, Buster Phillips

• Duet Vocals: Randy Wright on "He's Out of My Life"
• Electric guitar

Pete Bordonali, Bruce Dees, Fred Newell

• Electric Piano

Bobby Emmons, Bobby Ogdin

• Lead Vocals: Barbara Mandrell
• Piano

David Briggs

• Steel Guitar

John Hughey

• Strings

The Sheldon Kurland Strings

• String Arranger: Archie Jordan, Mike Leech
• Synthesizer

Tony Migliore

Charts

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		US Country	US	CAN Country
1980	"Crackers"	3	105	6
	"The Best of Strangers"	6	—	9
1981	"Love Is Fair"	13	—	7

Notes and References

1. Web site: Top Country Albums – Year-End 1981. Billboard. June 4, 2021.