That's Love (Billy Fury song) explained

That's Love
Cover:Billy Fury That's Love.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Billy Fury with the Four Jays
Album:The Sound of Fury
B-Side:You Don't Know
Recorded:14 April 1960[1]
Studio:Decca Studios, London
Genre:Rock and roll
Label:Decca
Producer:Jack Good
Prev Title:Colette
Prev Year:1960
Next Title:Wondrous Place
Next Year:1960

"That's Love" is a song by English singer Billy Fury with vocal group the Four Jays, released as a single in May 1960. It peaked at number 19 on the Record Retailer Top 50.

Release and reception

"That's Love" was released as the only single from Fury's debut album The Sound of Fury, yet neither single nor album were particularly successful, with both only briefly appearing on their respective charts. As with the rest of the album, "That's Love" and its B-side "You Don't Know" were written by Fury, although the latter under the pseudonym Wilber Wilberforce.

Reviewing for Disc, Don Nicholl described Fury as "rocking on a comfortable winner in "That's Love"" and that "it should register happily in all the juke areas and I am also tipping it to climb into the big selling league". He also described "You Don't Know" as "almost a talker. Extremely slow with piano and guitar behind Billy. I think he tends to over-dramatise this half".[2]

Track listing

7": Decca / F 11237

  1. "That's Love" – 1:48
  2. "You Don't Know" – 2:28

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1960)Peak
position
UK Melody Maker Top 20[3] 17
UK New Musical Express Top 30[4] 22
UK Record Mirror Top 20[5] 20
UK Record Retailer Top 50[6] 19

Notes and References

  1. Web site: That's Love . 2022-02-08 . www.nic.fi . https://web.archive.org/web/20130430064212/http://www.nic.fi/~nallew/pages/thats.html . 30 April 2013 . dead.
  2. 21 May 1960. Disc Date. Disc. 10. 8 February 2022.
  3. 11 June 1960. Top Twenty. Melody Maker. 2.
  4. 10 June 1960. NME Music Charts. New Musical Express.
  5. 11 June 1960. Top Twenty. Record Mirror.
  6. Web site: Billy Fury full Official Chart History Official Charts Company. 2022-10-02. www.officialcharts.com.