Language of Love

John D. Loudermilk | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 26, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00004XSJ0
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #246,706 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Darling Jane

2. Song of the Lonely Teen

3. Language of Love

4. The Rocks of Reno

5. You Reap Just What You Sow

6. Two Strangers in Love

7. Mr. Jones

8. Jimmie's Song

9. Blue Train (Of the Heartbreak Line)

10. What Would You Take for Me?

11. Mary's No Longer Mine

12. The Great Snowman

13. Thou Shalt Not Steal [*]

14. Callin' Doctor Casey [*]

15. Road Hog [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Michael Franks of Sixties country-pop, July 22, 2001

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R. L. MILLER (FT LAUDERDALE FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Language of Love (Audio CD)

When I bought the 45rpm single of "Norman" by Sue Thompson as a junior high kid, I noticed the song had been written by John Loudermilk. That didn't strike me as particularly unusual--Del Shannon and Paul Anka as singers who could write didn't really become a huge majority in pop until the British Invasion a few years later. And I hadn't known until reading another review here that Loudermilk also wrote Thompson's "Sad Movies". But the song that displays Loudermilk's ability to write with "attitude" is "Road Hog", a song that articulates most real people's wish that all motorists who seem to be as bent on annoying other drivers as they are to get where they're going would run afoul of an unmarked cop car. Especially in this, the "road rage" era, when the stigma is on those of us who don't like road hogs. Oh well, there's no such thing as jaywalking anymore either. Wake up, kiddies--Al Toffler's "future shock" is now the present.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars More a writer, less a performer, June 9, 2001

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Zub "Zubenelgenubi" (Forks Twp., PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Language of Love (Audio CD)

John D. Loudermilk falls in that group of personalities who had immense success as a songwriter but little impact as a performer. Loudermilk's huge catalog of tunes, many of which were taken to heights by other artists, are far better known and appreciated than his own singing found here on this disc.

This CD is the "Language of Love" album with his three other pop-charting RCA tunes thrown in as bonus tracks. As such, the album becomes essentially a "greatest-hits" compilation minus his one chart entry on Colonial, the "Sittin' In The Balcony" as by Johnny Dee. His material that he chose to record himself was not always his best and since his performing abilities were secondary to his songwriting, this disc is more of a curiosity or a collector's piece.

The entire disc is presented in true stereo and reasonably decent sound quality. The liner notes are interesting, again more for his songwriting contributions than his performing.

As presented, this is of interest mainly for collectors. What would be hugely interesting would be a compilation of Loudermilk's tunes as performed by those who made them hits, a project that would fit into Ace's of England songwriter compilation series.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars More a writer, less a performer, June 9, 2001

By 

Zub "Zubenelgenubi" (Forks Twp., PA) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: Language of Love (Audio CD)

John D. Loudermilk falls in that group of personalities who had immense success as a songwriter but little impact as a performer. Loudermilk's huge catalog of tunes, many of which were taken to heights by other artists, are far better known and appreciated than his own singing found here on this disc.

This CD is the "Language of Love" album with his three other pop-charting RCA tunes thrown in as bonus tracks. As such, the album becomes essentially a "greatest-hits" compilation minus his one chart entry on Colonial, the "Sittin' In The Balcony" as by Johnny Dee. His material that he chose to record himself was not always his best and since his performing abilities were secondary to his songwriting, this disc is more of a curiosity or a collector's piece.

The entire disc is presented in true stereo and reasonably decent sound quality. The liner notes are interesting, again more for his songwriting contributions than his performing.

As presented, this is of interest mainly for collectors. What would be hugely interesting would be a compilation of Loudermilk's tunes as performed by those who made them hits, a project that would fit into Ace's of England songwriter compilation series.