Softly (The Sandpipers album)

Softly
Studio album by The Sandpipers
Released	August 1968
Genre	Pop/Rock
Label	A&M SP-4147
Producer	Tommy LiPuma
The Sandpipers chronology
Misty Roses (1967) Softly (1968) Spanish Album (1969)

Softly was an LP album featuring The Sandpipers, released by A&M Records in August, 1968. The album reached #180 on the Billboard chart. Two singles from the album charted in the top 40 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart: "Quando M'Innamoro" at #16 and the title track at #39.

The album was the first Sandpipers album to be issued in stereo only and not in monaural form in the United States; the catalog numbers were SP-4147 in the US and Canada, and AML-918 in the United Kingdom. Other international releases included Australia (A&M SAML-932,987), Brazil (A&M SP 4194), Germany (A&M 212 043), Israel (A&M 212043), New Zealand (A&M SAML-932987), Spain (A&M HDAS 371-22), Taiwan (Thia Sun KHS-4199), and Venezuela (A&M LPS 77326).^[1]