Let's Love While We Can

Let's Love While We Can is the thirty-seventh studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams, released in the U.K. in 1980 by CBS Records. For this project Williams eschews covering well-known pop hits and standards and relies mostly on original or lesser-known country songs.

Let's Love While We Can
Studio album by
Andy Williams
Released1980
Genre
Length33:49
LabelCBS Records
ProducerDick Peirce[2]
Andy Williams chronology
Andy
(1976)		 Let's Love While We Can
(1980)		 Greatest Love Classics
(1984)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

On June 21, 2004, Let's Love While We Can became available as one of two albums on one CD by Sony Music Distribution, the other album being Williams's Columbia release from the fall of 1974, You Lay So Easy on My Mind.[1] Two songs from this album, "Jason" and "I'll Never Love Anyone Anymore", were included as bonus tracks on the 2002 CD release of Williams's previous album, Andy.[3]

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Let's Love While We Can" (Ronny Scaife) - 2:49
  2. "Only Everything" (Randy Goodrum) - 3:32
  3. "Jason" (Deborah Kay Hupp, Robert E. Morrison) - 3:12
  4. "Beside Me" (Randy Goodrum) - 2:24
  5. "If You Were a Singer" (Marty Cooper) - 3:29
  6. "Railway Hotel" (Mike Batt) - 3:11

Side two
  1. "I Don't Want to Be in Love" (Charlie Black, Rory Michael Bourke) - 3:31
  2. "Love Is a Cold Wind" (Charlie Black, Rory Michael Bourke) - 3:53
  3. "Regrets" (Barbara Myrick) - 3:15
  4. "If I Reach for You" (Charlie Black, Mike Lawler) - 3:37
  5. "It Was Time" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) - 4:13
  6. "I'll Never Love Anyone Anymore" (Laurie Andrew, Cedric Chiles) - 2:46

Song information

Barbara Fairchild entered the Country singles chart with "Let's Love While We Can" in the issue of Billboard magazine dated May 10, 1975, and reached number 52 over the course of 10 weeks.[4] "Railway Hotel" first appeared on Mike Batt's 1977 album Schizophonia,[5] and "Love Is a Cold Wind" was recorded by Roy Orbison for his 1979 album Laminar Flow.[6] "Beside Me" by Steve Wariner made its first appearance on the Country singles chart in the August 4, 1979, issue of Billboard and got as high as number 60 during its seven weeks there.[7] James Brown's recording of "Regrets" debuted on the Billboard R&B chart in the issue of the magazine dated January 26, 1980, and began a six-week run that took the song to number 63,[8] and Kenny Rankin entered the Adult Contemporary chart with the song six months later, in the July 19 issue, and peaked at number 33 during his seven weeks there.[9]

Personnel

From the liner notes for the original album:[2]

  • Andy Williams - vocals
  • Dick Peirce - producer
  • Billy Sherrill - engineer
  • Bill Justis - arrangements
  • Yvonne Hodges - background vocals
  • Donna McElroy - background vocals
  • Lewis Nunley - background vocals
  • Steve Pippin - background vocals
  • Wendy Suits - background vocals
  • Dennis Wilson - background vocals
  • Gil Wright - background vocals
  • Mary Ann Kennedy - female vocal solo ("Regrets")
  • Slick Lawson - cover photo
  • Keats Tyler - back cover photo
  • Simon Cantwell - design

Musicians

References
  1. "You Lay So Easy on My Mind/Let's Love While We Can - Andy Williams". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
  2. (1980) Let's Love While We Can by Andy Williams [album jacket]. London: CBS Records 84136.
  3. "Andy (Bonus Tracks) - Andy Williams". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
  4. Whitburn 2002, p. 109.
  5. "Schizophonia - Mike Batt". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
  6. "Laminar Flow - Roy Orbison". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
  7. Whitburn 2002, p. 376.
  8. Whitburn 2004, p. 85.
  9. Whitburn 2007, p. 225.

Bibliography
  • Whitburn, Joel (2002), Joel Whitburn's Top Country Singles, 1944-2001, Record Research Inc., ISBN 0-89820-151-9
  • Whitburn, Joel (2004), Joel Whitburn Presents Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles, 1942-2004, Record Research Inc., ISBN 0-89820-160-8
  • Whitburn, Joel (2007), Joel Whitburn Presents Billboard Top Adult Songs, 1961-2006, Record Research Inc., ISBN 978-0-89820-169-7
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