"That's Love" is a song by English singer

Billy Fury Ronald Wycherley (17 April 1940 – 28 January 1983), better known by his stage name Billy Fury, was an English musician. An early star of rock and roll, he spent 332 weeks on the UK singles chart. His hit singles include " Wondrous Place", " H ...

with the vocal group The Four Jays, released as a single in May 1960. It peaked at number 19 on the ''

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'' Top 50.

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. 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. Reviewing for '' Disc'',

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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".

Track listing

7": Decca / F 11237 # "That's Love" – 1:48 # "You Don't Know" – 2:28

Personnel

– 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

References

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