Genre: pop
Rating: 1 stars *
Title: Your Love Is a Very Special Thing To Me
Company: Guinness
Catalog: GNS
36019
Year: 1977
Country/State: US
Grade (cover/record): VG+ / VG+
Comments: cut top right corner
Available: 1
GEMM catalog ID: 5700
Price: $40.00
As a tax loss label Guinness seemed to release virtually anything they could get their corporate hands on. That made for a pretty eclectic catalog which bounced all over the musical spectrum including slices of MOR pop like this one.
Produced by Don R. Smith "Your Love Is a Very Special Thing To Me" showcased material penned by Phil Stevens (one track credited to Jannie James). Namesake Stevens certainly had a decent voice and he brought at least a degree of enthusiasm to the proceedings. Unfortunately, as you probably guessed given the album title, most of the ten songs were banal, over-orchestrated pop that occasionally sounded like something Tom Jones, or a Las Vegas nightclub performer might had recorded. Tracks like 'What's In a Morning', 'Love Your Man' and 'House with No Love There' were too bland to even cut it as background music. Was there anything with redeeming value on this album? Nope. Even the anonymous cover model was skanky. Okay, okay the cheesy synthesizer in the title track was funny. There aren't a lot of albums that I give a one star rating to, but here's one of 'em.
"Your
Love Is a Very Special Thing To Me" track listing:
(side 1)
1.) Good Loving (Phil Stevens) - 2:54
2.) What's In a Morning (Phil Stevens) - 3:20
3.) Love Your Man (Phil Stevens) - 3:19
4.) House with No Love There (Phil Stevens) - 3:24
(side
2)
1.) Lovin' You is All That's Left of Me (Phil
Stevens) - 2:48
2.) Warm and Tender Minutes (Phil Stevens) - 3:31
3.) Beloved Child (Phil Stevens)- 3:13
4.) Your Love Is a Very Special Thing To Me (Phil Stevens) - 3:28
5.) Borrowed Dime (Jannie James) - 2:44
6.) Game of Card (Phil Stevens) - 2:09