After the album ''
Love Has No Reason'' yielded the No. 1 Country single, "Are You On The Road To Lovin' Me Again",
Debby Boone
Deborah Anne Boone (born September 22, 1956) is an American singer, author, and actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life (song), You Light Up My Life", which spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboar ...
returned to producer Larry Butler for her fifth studio album, ''Savin' It Up'' (No. 49 Country), in 1981. The result was not as successful. The album's first single, "Perfect Fool", only reached No. 23 Country and No. 37 AC. The follow-up, "It'll Be Him", missed the Country Top 40 peaking at No. 46.
Boone has since not appeared on any Billboard Country chart. After the release of this album, Boone instead concentrated on a national tour starring in the musical, ''
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers
''Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'' is a 1954 American musical film, directed by Stanley Donen, with music by Gene de Paul, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, and choreography by Michael Kidd. The screenplay, by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, and Dorot ...
'', before recording several Christian albums during the rest of the 1980s.
Track listing
Side 1
# "It'll Be Him" (Billy Ray Reynolds) 3:01
# "Isn't That Just Like Love" (Richard Leigh) 2:50
# "
Every Day I Have to Cry" (
Arthur Alexander
Arthur Alexander (May 10, 1940 – June 9, 1993) was an American country soul songwriter and singer. Jason Ankeny, music critic for AllMusic, said Alexander was a "country-soul pioneer" and that, though largely unknown, "his music is the stuff ...
) 2:29
# "Only Wounded" (Peter Allen,
Carole Bayer Sager
Carole Bayer Sager (born Carol Bayer on March 8, 1947) is an American lyricist, singer, and songwriter.
Early life and career
Bayer Sager was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Anita Nathan Bayer and Eli Bayer. Her family was Jewish. She grad ...
) 3:33
# "Perfect Fool" (Diane Pfeifer) 2:17
Side 2
# "Savin' It Up" (
Randy Goodrum
Charles Randolph Goodrum (born July 7, 1947) is an American songwriter, pianist, and producer. Goodrum has written number one songs in each of the four decades since his first number one hit, 1978's "You Needed Me".
Goodrum's songs have appeare ...
) 3:17
# "Tonight" (Rafe Van Hoy,
Don Cook
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) 2:55
# "Too Many Rivers" (
Harlan Howard
Harlan Perry Howard (September 8, 1927 – March 3, 2002) was an American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard wrote many popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists.
C ...
) 3:01
# "Never Say Never" (
Bob Morrison,
Mel McDaniel
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) 2:34
# "When You Love Me" (Jerry Taylor, Paul Richey) 3:34
Chart performance
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1981 albums
Debby Boone albums