It's All In The Game

Album: Tommy Edwards Greatest Hits (1951)
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  • Many a tear has to fall but it's all in the game
    All in the wonderful game that we know as love
    You have words with him and your future's looking dim
    But these things your hearts can rise above

    Once in a while he won't call but it's all in the game
    Soon he'll be there at your side with a sweet bouquet
    And he'll kiss your lips and caress your waiting fingertips
    And your hearts will fly away

    (Soon he'll be there at your side) with a sweet bouquet
    Then he'll kiss your lips and caress your waiting fingertips
    And your hearts will fly away Writer/s: Carl Sigman, Charles Gates Dawes
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, MUSIC SALES CORPORATION, Royalty Network
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn September 14th 1958, Tommy Edwards performed "It's All in the Game" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'...
    At the time the song was at #11 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on September 29th it peaked at #1 {for 6 weeks} and spent a total of 22 weeks on the Top 100...
    And on the same day that it peaked at #1 on the Top 100 it also reached #1 {for 3 non-consecutive weeks} on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
    Between 1951 and 1960 he had twenty-one Top 100 records, with "It's All in the Game" being his only Top 10 record...
    But he just missed having a second Top 10 record when "Please, Mr. Sun" peaked at #11 {for 1 week} in 1959...
    Sadly, Mr. Edwards passed away on October 22nd, 1969 at the young age of 47 {a brain aneurysm}...
    May he R.I.P.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 19th 1970, "It's All In The Game" by the Four Tops entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #99; and on June 28th it peaked at #24 (for 1 week) and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #6 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart and #5 in the United Kingdom.
  • Martin from Fresno, CaA great song. His other songs were bigger hits for artists who covered those songs like "Mr.Sun," but this song will be a song no other artist can do as well.
  • Kristin from Bessemer, AlI LOVE the FOUR TOPS version from 1970 - a much different arrangement than the 1958 version-
  • John from Appleton, WiAlso the oly song written by a Nobel Prize winner.
  • Mickey from Ocala, FlThis song was # 1 for Tommy Edwards in 1958.
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