All About a Feeling

All About a Feeling is the third studio album released by American country artist Donna Fargo. The album was released in October 1973 on Dot Records and was produced by Fargo's husband and manager Stan Silver. It was Donna Fargo's second studio released in 1973 and spawned two Top 10 hits on the Billboard country chart between 1973 and 1974. It was Fargo's first studio album not to chart among the Billboard 200 albums list.

All About a Feeling
Studio album by
Donna Fargo
ReleasedOctober 1973
RecordedNovember 1972 – March 1973
GenreCountry, Country pop
LabelDot
ProducerStan Silver
Donna Fargo chronology
My Second Album
(1973)		 All About a Feeling
(1973)		 Miss Donna Fargo
(1974)
Singles from All About a Feeling
  1. "Little Girl Gone"
    Released: September 1973
  2. "I'll Try a Little Bit Harder"
    Released: January 1974
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideC+[2]

Background and content

All About a Feeling was recorded in two sessions between November 1972 and March 1973, both at the Jack Clement Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The session in November 1972 produced the songs "I'll Try a Little Bit Harder" and "Just Call Me". The session in March 1973 produced the rest of the album's material.[3] All About a Feeling consisted of eleven tracks, all of which were written entirely by Fargo. This was unlike any of Fargo's previous releases, which contained either one or two tracks not written by Fargo herself. The opening track entitled "It Do Feel Good" would later become a Top 10 hit when it was featured on her 1974 release, Miss Donna Fargo.

All About a Feeling was originally released on a LP record, containing six songs on the A side of the record and five songs on the B side of the record. The album has never be reissued on a compact disc since its original 1973 release.[4]

Release

All About a Feeling's sixth track entitled "Little Girl Gone" was released as the lead single from the album in September 1973. The single became Fargo's first major hit not to reach number one, but instead peak at #2 on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Singles chart, #57 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #43 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart.[5] In Canada, the single peaked at #2 on the RPM Country Singles chart and #55 on the RPM Adult Contemporary Singles chart.[6] "I'll Try a Little Bit Harder" was spawned as the album's second and final single in January 1974, which peaked at #6 on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Singles list.[5] All About a Feeling was released in October 1973 on Dot Records and peaked at #5 on the Billboard Magazine Top Country Albums chart. It became Fargo's first album not to chart the Billboard 200 albums list.[7]

Allmusic retrospectively reviewed All About a Feeling and gave it three out of five stars, stating, "Fargo's brand of upbeat and accessible country is the sort of music that brought the genre such tremendous mainstream success from the '70s onward."[1]

Track listing

All songs composed by Donna Fargo.

Side one
  1. "It Do Feel Good" – 2:49
  2. "I'll Try a Little Bit Harder" – 3:06
  3. "Puffy Eyes" – 2:51
  4. "Nothing Can Stay" – 2:22
  5. "All About a Feeling" – 2:28
Side two
  1. "Little Girl Gone" – 2:28
  2. "Just Call Me" – 2:24
  3. "Hot Diggety Dog" – 2:19
  4. "Does It Matter" – 2:09
  5. "Rotten Little Song" – 2:00
  6. "Just a Friend of Mine" – 2:21

Personnel

Sales chart positions
Album
Chart (1973) Peak
position
U.S. Top Country Albums[7] 5
Singles
Year Song Peak chart positions
US Country
[5]		 US
[5]		 US AC
[5]		 CAN Country
[6]		 CAN AC
[6]
1973 "Little Girl Gone" 2 57 43 2 55
1974 "I'll Try a Little Bit Harder" 6 — — — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

References
  1. Adams, Greg. "All About a Feeling > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
  2. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: F". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. "Donna Fargo session discography". Praguefrank's Country Music Discographies. Archived from the original on 2012-07-03. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
  4. "All About a Feeling by Donna Fargo". Rate Your Music. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
  5. "Billboard chart positions > singles". Allmusic. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
  6. "Search results for "Little Girl Gone"". RPM. Archived from the original on 13 October 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
  7. "All About a Feeling > Charts". Allmusic. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
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