Softly (The Sandpipers album)

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.

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)

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).

Track listing

Side One

1. Softly (Gordon Lightfoot) 2:30
2. Find a Reason to Believe (Tim Hardin) 2:04
3. Back on the Street Again (Steve Gillette) 1:55
4. Love Is Blue (L’Amour Est Bleu) (Brian Blackburn/André Popp/Pierre Cour) 1:55
5. Canción De Amor (Wanderlove) (Mason Williams/C. Mapel) 3:45
6. Quando M'Innamoro (Roberto Livraghi/Daniele Pace/Mario Panzeri) 3:05

Side Two

1. Jennifer Juniper (Donovan Leitch) 2:40
2. All My Loving (Lennon–McCartney)
3. Ojos De España (Spanish Eyes) (Bert Kaempfert/Eddie Snyder/Charlie Singleton)
4. To Put Up With You (Paul Williams/Roger Nichols) 2:45
5. Suzanne (Leonard Cohen) 4:35
6. Gloria Patri (Gregorian Psalm Tone III) 0:21

The 8-track tape release (AM 8147) had a different track order: A1-A3-A5, A2-A4-B3, A6-B1-B2, B4-B5-B6.

Production

• Producer: Tommy LiPuma
• Arrangers: Bob Thompson, Nick DeCaro
• Recording Engineer: Henry Lewy
• Mixing Engineer: Dick Bogert
• Album Design: Corporate Head
• Art Director: Tom Wilkes
• Photography: Guy Webster