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Released on Mercury Records, also Livin’ on a Prayer (Bon Jovi), Space Oddity (David Bowie) and You Give Love a Bad Name (Bon Jovi)
Written by Layng Martine, Jr., also Way Down (Elvis Presley), Should I Do It (The Pointer Sisters) and Pas de boogie woogie (Eddy Mitchell)
Part of Feel the Fire, also (You Lift Me) Up to Heaven, I Can See Forever in Your Eyes and Long Distance Lover
Written by Richard Mainegra, also Separate Ways (Elvis Presley), Homemade Love (Kenny Rogers) and Who’s Gonna Know (Conway Twitty)
Worth knowing
Counted from cited credits on fono.
Layng Martine, Jr. wrote 13 songs on fono
Layng Martine, Jr. first appears on fono in 1969, 11 years before this song
Richard Mainegra first appears on fono in 1972, 8 years before this song
Credits
All 4 credits
- Written by
- Layng Martine, Jr. and Richard Mainegra
- Part of
- Feel the Fire
- Released on
- Mercury Records
- Written by
- Layng Martine, Jr. and Richard Mainegra
- Part of
- Feel the Fire
- Released on
- Mercury Records
Connected by credits
Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.
Same writer: Layng Martine, Jr.
Same writer: Richard Mainegra
Same label: Mercury Records
Same release: Feel the Fire
Same writer: Layng Martine, Jr.
Same writer: Richard Mainegra
Same label: Mercury Records
Same release: Feel the Fire
Elsewhere
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1MusicBrainz I Don’t Think Love Ought to Be That Way was written by Layng Martine, Jr.
I Don’t Think Love Ought to Be That Way was written by Layng Martine, Jr.
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2MusicBrainz I Don’t Think Love Ought to Be That Way was written by Richard Mainegra
I Don’t Think Love Ought to Be That Way was written by Richard Mainegra
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3MusicBrainz I Don’t Think Love Ought to Be That Way is part of the release Feel the Fire
I Don’t Think Love Ought to Be That Way is part of the release Feel the Fire
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4MusicBrainz Mercury Records is the label of the song I Don’t Think Love Ought to Be That Way
Mercury Records is the label of the song I Don’t Think Love Ought to Be That Way
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5MusicBrainz I Don’t Think Love Ought to Be That Way was released on 1980-10-06
I Don’t Think Love Ought to Be That Way was released on 1980-10-06
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