title: Love Is a Gentle Thing
text: # Love Is a Gentle Thing
  
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  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".
  
  ## Track listing
  
  ### Side one
  
  * "Fifteen" (Alan Greene, Robert Nemeroff) – 2:50
  * "I Never Will Marry" (Fred Brooks) – 2:44
  * "I'm Goin' Away" (Alan Greene) – 3:08
  * "Small One" (Lewis Allan, Alan Greene) – 2:53
  * "Bella Rosa" (Lord Burgess) – 3:25
  * "All My Trials" (Rita Greene, C. C. Carter) – 4:37
  
  ### Side two
  
  * "Green Grow the Lilacs" (Fred Brooks) – 3:55
  * "Times are Gettin' Hard" (Lee Hays) – 3:36
  * "Turn Around" (Malvina Reynolds, Alan Greene) – 2:23
  * "Go Away from My Window" (John Jacob Niles) – 3:09
  * "Delia's Gone" (Bob Corman, Milt Okun)– 4:34
  * "Walkin' on the Green Grass" (Fred Brooks) – 3:22
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Harry Belafonte – vocals
  * Bob Corman – arranger, conductor ("I Never Will Marry", "Bella Rosa", "All My Trials", "Green Grow the Lilacs", "Times are Gettin' Hard", "Delia's Gone", "Walkin' on the Green Grass")
  * Alan Greene – arranger, conductor ("Fifteen", "I'm Goin' Away", "Small One", "Turn Around", "Go Away From My Window")
  * Produced by Edward Welker
  * Cover Art by David Stone Martin
  * Liner-notes by Paul Ackerman
  