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Single:
The Price of Love entered the Australian singles chart* on 13 September 1976 and peaked at #9. It was the #61 song on the Top 100 of 1976.
Album:
The song is on Let’s Stick Together which entered the Australian albums chart* on 18 October 1976. It reached #1 on 8 November 1976 and remained there for 2 weeks.
Songwriters:
Don Everly, Phil Everly
Producers:
Chris Thomas, Bryan Ferry
Record label of Australian release:
Island
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
BONUS TRACKS BELOW – versions by The Everly Brothers and Status Quo
Wikipedia:
Bryan Ferry’s 1976 album Let’s Stick Together was his third solo release, and was his first following the disbanding of Roxy Music earlier in the year.
Ferry’s The Price of Love is a cover of an Everly Brothers song released in 1965 as a single, and in 1966 on their album In Our Image.
Other covers included Status Quo, Poco and Marianne Faithfull, and unreleased versions have been recorded by Elvis Costello and Linda Ronstadt.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Price_of_Love
Lyrics:
The wine is sweet the gin is bitter
Drink all you can but you won′t forget her
You talk too much, you laugh too loud
You see her face in every crowd
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BONUS
Status Quo released a rock version of The Price of Love in 1969:
The original 1965 version by The Everly Brothers:
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