A Gift of Song (The Sandpipers album)


A Gift of Song was an LP album by The Sandpipers, released by A&M Records in March 1971 with catalog number SP 4328 in the U.S. and Canada. Other international releases included Germany, and the United Kingdom. The album was reissued on CD in Japan in 2002 and again in 2014.
The February 12, 1972 issue of Billboard Magazine reviewed the album:
The February 26, 1972 issue of Record World commented:
The Sandpipers are crooners with a past, present and future. Here they glide ever-so-softly through songs of fairly recent vintage. Among the pretties made even prettier are "If," "Never My Love," "Never Can Say Goodbye," "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" and "An Old Fashioned Love Song."
The album was the first by the group not to make the Billboard charts after seven entries from 1966 to 1970. In another first for the group, no singles from the album made the U.S., U.K. or Canadian charts.
Founding member Richard Shoff did not appear on the album.

Track listing

Side One
  1. "A Gift of Song" 3:21
  2. "It's Too Late" 3:22
  3. "Never My Love" 2:49
  4. "Leland Loftis" 2:44
  5. "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" 2:55
Side Two
  1. "Never Can Say Goodbye" 2:48
  2. "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" 3:29
  3. "An Old Fashioned Love Song" 2:49
  4. "Chotto Matte Kudasai " 3:19
  5. "If" 2:53
  6. "A Gift of Song " 1:39

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