For Your Sweet Love

For Your Sweet Love
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 27, 1963
GenreRock and roll
Length27:14
LabelDecca
ProducerCharles "Bud" Dant
Rick Nelson chronology
Best Sellers by Rick Nelson
(1963)
For Your Sweet Love
(1963)
Rick Nelson Sings for You
(1963)
Singles from For You Sweet Love
  1. "I Got a Woman"
    Released: February 27, 1963
  2. "String Along"
    Released: May 9, 1963

For Your Sweet Love is the eighth studio album by rock and roll and pop idol Rick Nelson[1] and his first for Decca Records. The album was released on May 27, 1963.

it features the singles "I Got a Woman", "You Don't Love Me Anymore (And I Can Tell)", "String Along", and "Gypsy Woman", It also features the cover of Little Peggy March's "I Will Follow You", and a couple of contirbutions by Dorsey Burnette and Joe Osborn.[2]

The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated June 8, 1963, and remained on the chart for 20 weeks, peaking at number 20.[3] It also debuted on the Cashbox albums chart in the issue dated July 13, of that year, and remained on the chart for a total of 22 weeks, peaking at number 17.[4]

The album was released on compact disc for the first time by Ace Records in 1997 as tracks 1 through 12 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 12 through 24 consisting of the other album being Nelson's Other Decca album from December 1963, Rick Nelson Sings for You.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference AMG was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Selvin, Joel (1990). Ricky Nelson: Idol for a Generation. Chicago: Contemporary Books. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-8092-4187-3.
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums: 1955-1996. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 556. ISBN 0898201179.
  4. ^ Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 268. ISBN 0-8108-2005-6.
  5. ^ "For Your Sweet Love/Sings for You". allmusic.com. Retrieved 15 September 2024.