Games That Lovers Play (song)

"Games That Lovers Play"
Single by Eddie Fisher
from the album Games That Lovers Play
B-side	"Mame"
Released	October 1966
Recorded	1966
Genre	Adult Contemporary, Easy Listening
Label	RCA
Songwriter(s)	Eddie Snyder, James Last, Larry Kusik, Rudolf Gunter-Loose
Producer(s)	Al Schmitt
Eddie Fisher singles chronology
"Tonight" (1961) "Games That Lovers Play" (1966) "People Like You" (1967)

"Games That Lovers Play"
Single by Wayne Newton
B-side	"Half a World Away"
Released	October 1966
Recorded	1966
Genre	Adult Contemporary, Easy Listening
Label	MGM
Songwriter(s)	Eddie Snyder, James Last, Larry Kusik, Rudolf Gunter-Loose
Wayne Newton singles chronology
"Remember When" (1965) "Games That Lovers Play" (1966) "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" (1968)

"Games That Lovers Play"
Single by Connie Francis
B-side	"Spanish Nights and You"
Released	October 1966
Recorded	1966
Genre	Adult Contemporary, Easy Listening
Label	MGM
Songwriter(s)	Eddie Snyder, James Last, Larry Kusik, Rudolf Gunter-Loose

"Games That Lovers Play" is a popular song composed by James Last which became a hit for multiple artists in 1966 and 1967. The song has been recorded more than 100 times.^[1]

Renditions by Eddie Fisher, Wayne Newton, and Mantovani charted concurrently late in 1966 in the U.S., with Fisher's doing best, reaching number 45 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.^[2] His and Newton's versions also charted on the Easy Listening chart, with Fisher's rendition reaching number two. His record also became a moderate hit in Canada. Nelson Riddle arranged it.

In early 1967, "Games That Lovers Play" became a hit for Donald Peers in the United Kingdom and for Connie Francis in South Africa, where it reached the Top 20. Her B-side, "Spanish Nights and You," became a pop (#99) and Easy Listening (#15) hit in the United States.