That's Love (Billy Fury song)

"That's Love"
Single by Billy Fury with the Four Jays
from the album The Sound of Fury
B-side"You Don't Know"
Released13 May 1960 (1960-05-13)[1]
Recorded14 April 1960[1]
StudioDecca Studios, London
GenreRock and roll
Length1:48
LabelDecca
Songwriter(s)Billy Fury
Producer(s)Jack Good
Billy Fury with the Four Jays singles chronology
"Colette"
(1960) 		"That's Love"
(1960) 		"Wondrous Place"
(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.[2]

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.[2] 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.[3]

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".[4]

Track listing

7": Decca / F 11237

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

Personnel

  • Billy Fury – vocals
  • Joe Brown – guitar
  • Reg Guest – piano
  • Alan Weighall – electric bass guitar
  • Bill Stark – bass guitar
  • Andy White – drums
  • The Four Jays (Joe McKinley, J Bretton, Johnny Morgan and Jonie Chalmers) – backing vocals

Charts

Chart (1960) Peak
position
UK Melody Maker Top 20[5] 17
UK New Musical Express Top 30[6] 22
UK Record Mirror Top 20[7] 20
UK Record Retailer Top 50[2] 19

References

  1. ^ a b "That's Love". www.nic.fi. Archived from the original on 30 April 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Billy Fury | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
  3. ^ Billy Fury - That's Love, retrieved 8 February 2022
  4. ^ "Disc Date" (PDF). Disc. 21 May 1960. p. 10. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  5. ^ "Top Twenty". Melody Maker. 11 June 1960. p. 2.
  6. ^ "NME Music Charts". New Musical Express. 10 June 1960.
  7. ^ "Top Twenty". Record Mirror. 11 June 1960.