Only Love 1955-1959 (1997)

About this title: It's Only Love 1955-1959 follows the pattern of JCI's It's Only series, offering a seemingly random collection of 20 hits from a given genre or style for a period of five years. These songs weren't necessarily the biggest hits of these five years, although there are a number of classics and smashes here. It may be hard to deduce exactly why these songs were chosen -- especially since the compilers apparently define the "love" genre as anything vaguely romantic, muiscally or lyrically -- but the end results are nevertheless quite entertaining. All of the songs are featured in their original ... read more

Tracks:

1. Come Go with Me [Quick]
2. Put Your Head on My Shoulder [Anka]
3. ('Til) I Kissed You [Everly]
4. It's Just a Matter of Time [Hendricks/Benton/Ot]
5. Little Star [Venosa/Picone/Vaeno]
6. Young Love [Cartey/Joyner]
7. Venus [Marshall]
8. Secretly [Hoffman/Manning/Mar]
9. A Lover's Question [Williams/Benton]
10. In the Still of the Night [Parris]
11. Dream Lover [Darin]
12. Twilight Time [Dunn/Nevins/Ram]
13. Sea of Love [Khoury/Baptiste]
14. Come Softly to Me [Troxel/Christopher/]
15. Maybe [Barrett]
16. My Happiness [Bergantine/Peterson]
17. Love Letters in the Sand [Coots/Kenny/Kenny]
18. Just a Dream [Clanton]
19. Born to Be With You [Robertson]
20. True Love Ways [Petty/Holly]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.