Love Is Only Feeling Explained

Love Is Only Feeling
Type:	studio
Artist:	Donovan
Cover:	Donovan-Love_Is_Only_Feeling.jpg
Released:	October 1981
Recorded:	1981
Studio:	Utopia Studios, London^[1]
Genre:	Folk
Length:	39:30
Label:	RCA (West Germany)
Producer:	Donovan Leitch
Prev Title:	Neutronica
Prev Year:	1980
Next Title:	Lady of the Stars
Next Year:	1984

Love Is Only Feeling is the sixteenth studio album (eighteenth overall) by Scottish singer/songwriter Donovan. It was released in West Germany (RCA PL 28472) in October 1981, in Italy in January 1982 (Bubble Record, BLU 19610) and belatedly in the UK (RCA PL 28472) in 1983.

History

In 1981, Donovan entered the studio to record the second album of his German RCA contract. The resulting album, Love Is Only Feeling, did not see a US release, but was released in the UK in 1983. The title track is a remake of "Someone's Singing" originally released on A Gift from a Flower to a Garden.

Donovan sang Love Is Only Feeling at Festival di Sanremo 1982 with his daughter Astrella.

Track listing

All tracks by Donovan Leitch.

Original album

Side one

1. "Lady of the Flowers" – 3:10
2. "Lover O Lover" – 3:53
3. "The Actor" – 4:05
4. "Half Moon Bay" – 3:55
5. "The Hills of Tuscany" – 4:08

Side two

1. "Lay Down Lassie" – 4:15
2. "She" – 4:01
3. "Johnny Tuff" – 4:58
4. "Love Is Only Feeling" – 3:04
5. "Marjorie Margerine" – 4:01

Personnel

• Donovan – vocals, guitar
• Danny Thompson – double bass
• John Stevens – drums, percussion
• Tony Roberts – clarinet, piccolo flute, oboe, tenor saxophone
• Astrella Leitch – vocals on "Love Is Only Feeling"

References

1. album liner notes (RCA PL 28472)

External links

• Love Is Only Feeling – Donovan Unofficial Site