Love Is a Gentle Thing

Love Is a Gentle Thing
Studio album by
Released1959
Recorded1958
GenreVocal
Length41:36
LabelRCA Victor
ProducerEd Welker
Harry Belafonte chronology
Belafonte Sings the Blues
(1958)
Love Is a Gentle Thing
(1959)
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall
(1959)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

Love Is a Gentle Thing is an album by Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Victor in 1959. It was recorded with arranger / conductors Alan Greene and Bob Corman.

Billboard magazine chose Love Is a Gentle Thing as one of their "Spotlight Winners of the Week" in March 1959, and wrote that "Belafonte displays his usual tender, feelingful vocal style on a group of expressive folk themes with varying moods...Striking cover".[2]

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (23 March 1959). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. ISSN 0006-2510. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)