Love Is Just a Game (album) explained

Love Is Just a Game
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Larry Gatlin
Cover:	Larry_Gatlin_Love_is_a_Gamr.jpg
Released:	1977
Studio:	Creative Workshop, Nashville; American Studios, Nashville
Genre:	Country
Label:	Monument
Producer:	Fred Foster
Prev Title:	Larry Gatlin with Family and Friends
Prev Year:	1976
Next Title:	Oh Brother
Next Year:	1978

Love Is Just a Game is the fifth studio album by American country music singer Larry Gatlin 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, Johnny Christopher, Jimmy 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 Golden – keyboards
• Lloyd Green, Michael G. Smith – steel guitar
• Farrell Morris – percussion
• Lisa Silver – fiddle
• Sheldon Kurland, Carl Gorodetzky, Lennie Haight, George Binkley, Steven Smith, Christian Teal, Marvin Chantry, Gary Vanosdale, Byron Bach, Roy Christensen, Wilfred Lehmann, Ann Migliore – strings
• Bill Justis – string arrangements

Production

• Produced by Fred Foster
• Brent Maher and Don Cobb – engineer
• Ken Kim – photography, art direction

Notes and References

1. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=mn0000129945/awards|pure_url=yes}} Larry Gatlin – Awards]. Allmusic. February 20, 2014.