If This Is Love (Joey Travolta song)

"If This Is Love"

"If This Is Love" cover
Song by Joey Travolta
Released 1978

"If This Is Love" is a song by Joey Travolta recorded for his debut album Joey Travolta in 1977, and released as a single in September 1978.[1] The song was written by Kerry Chater and Robbie Patton[2] and begins:

Guess I'm just afraid, I'm not the kind who makes it last forever...

As Travolta's second single "If This Is Love" failed to make the impact of his first single "I Don't Wanna Go", which had clipped the bottom of the Billboard 150, helped by an appearance on Dick Clark's American Bandstand.[3] Nevertheless the song was simultaneously taken up by Tom Jones for his "sensitive side" album What a Night (1977), then by Randy Edelman as a promo single for his album, You're the One (1979), and by Nigel Olsson on the album Changing Tides (1980). The best known cover, 2 years after Joey Travolta's single, was by Melissa Manchester as a single from the 1980 album For the Working Girl.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Billboard - 30 Sep 1978 ASCAP United Artists UAX1245Y JOEY TRAVOLTA-If This Is Love (3,44); producer John Davis, writers Robbie Palton. Kerry Chaler, publishers Rocktl/Unichappell
  2. ↑ Catalog of copyright entries Library of Congress. Copyright Office - 1978- Page 401 "If this is love / Robbie Patton, Kerry Chater . (In Joey Travolta. Killenniua HBLP 8007, p1978. 1 sound disc : 33 1/3 rpm , stereo"
  3. ↑ Diane Saks So You Want to Be a Rock N' Roll Bride 0595182763 2001 - Page 154 "Joey cut a record in 1978 called ”I Don't Wanna Go", it was something like 150 on the "Billboard" record chart. Joey sang the song on Dick Clark's, "American Bandstand", in the entertainment spot.
  4. ↑ Billboard - 27 Sep 1980 IF THIS IS LOVE Melissa Manchester, Arista 0551 (Umchappell/Rocket. BMI)
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