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chart and the title track single " Love Is Just a Game" reached number 3 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart and number 6 on the ''

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Track listing

All songs written by Larry Gatlin. Side 1 #" Love Is Just a Game" – 3:30 #"Tomorrow" – 2:32 #"Anything but Leavin'" – 2:44 #"If Practice Makes Perfect" – 3:27 #"Everytime a Plane Flies Over Our House" – 2:59 Side 2 #"

I Just Wish You Were Someone I Love "I Just Wish You Were Someone I Love" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Larry Gatlin. It was released in November 1977 as the fourth single from the album ''Love Is Just a Game "Love Is Just a Game" is a song written ...

" – 3:10 #"Kiss It All Goodbye" – 2:41 #" I Don't Wanna Cry" – 2:46 #"It's Love at Last" – 2:56 #"Steps" – 3:03 #"Alleluia" – 2:00

Personnel

* Grady Martin,

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, Johnny Christopher, Jimmy Colvard, Jerry Steve Smith, Pete Wade, Steve Gatlin, Rudy Gatlin – guitar * Gene Chrisman, Phillip Fajardo – drums * Tommy Cogbill – bass *

Bobby Emmons Bobby Gene Emmons (February 19, 1943 – February 23, 2015) was an American keyboard player and songwriter. He was an active session musician in Memphis, Tennessee, and was the keyboardist of The Memphis Boys, playing keyboards on tracks by E ...

, Bobby Wood, Shane Keister, William Golden – keyboards * Lloyd Green, Michael G. Smith – steel guitar *Farrell Morris – percussion *Lisa Silver – fiddle *Sheldon Kurland, Carl Gorodetzky, Lennie Haight, George Binkley, Steven Smith, Christian Teal, Marvin Chantry, Gary Vanosdale, Byron Bach, Roy Christensen, Wilfred Lehmann, Ann Migliore – strings * Bill Justis – string arrangements Production *Produced by Fred Foster * Brent Maher and Don Cobb – engineer *Ken Kim – photography, art direction

References

{{Authority control 1977 albums Larry Gatlin albums Monument Records albums Albums produced by Fred Foster