Country Love Songs is the twentieth studio album by American singer Vic Damone released by Warner Records in July 1965, and was available both in stereo and mono sound.
Background Like Damone's prior album You Were Only Fooling, it was produced by Jimmy Bowen. Neither of the two Bowen-produced albums were a success either aesthetically or at the cashbox.
Chart performance
The album debuted on the Cash Box looking ahead albums chart in the issue dated September 4, 1965, and remained on the chart for seven weeks, peaking at number 117.Cashbox Looking Ahead Albums, September 25, 1965 page 29, retrieved October 28, 2025 It debuted on the Record World looking ahead albums chart in the issue dated September 11, 1965, and remained on the chart for eleven weeks, peaking at number 115. Compact disc The album was released on compact disc by Collectables Records on August 12, 2003, as a double album paired with Damone's 1965 Warner debut, You Were Only Fooling. Reception
Billboard said Damone retains "the country flavor" of the song selection while enhancing them with his own pop style in "this change of pace album" for the singer.
Cash Box said "the smooth voice of Damone" on this LP brings "plenty of appeal for pop and good music spinners" and "enough attraction to send it soaring up the best seller charts."
Record World called it a "rewarding disk" and noted that "The other cuts are top notchers too", with them being: "Someday You'll Want Me to Want You," "You Don't Know Me" and "You Win Again".
The Asbury Park Evening Press said Damone "seems very much out of place in his Nashville musical setting", claiming "the songs sound insipid" and Damone "ridiculous".
Track listing
Side one
Side two
Charts +Chart peaks for Country Love SongsChart (1965)Peakposition US Cashbox Looking Ahead Albums117 US Record World Looking Ahead LP's115
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