BILLY FURY - IT'S ONLY MAKE BELIEVE

IT'S ONLY MAKE BELIEVE

BILLY FURY

Songwriter: jack nance & Conway twitty

Country: u.k.

Album: the billy fury parade

Label: decca records

Genre: rock and roll

Year: 1982

"It's Only Make Believe" is a song written by Jack Nance and American country music artist Conway Twitty, and produced by MGM Records Jim Vienneau, released by Twitty as a single in July 1958. The single topped both U.S. and the UK Singles Chart, and was Twitty's only number-one single on the pop charts of either country. On a segment of Pop Goes The Country, Twitty states the single was a hit in 22 different countries and sold over 8 million copies. It is believed that Twitty wrote his part of the song while sitting on a fire escape outside his hotel room, to escape the summer heat, in Hamilton, Ontario. Twitty had come to Canada at the request of another American singer, Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins, due to Hawkins saying to Twitty that Canada was the 'promised land' for music.

Ronald William Wycherley (17 April 1940 – 28 January 1983), better known by his stage name Billy Fury, was an English singer from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s. Rheumatic fever, which he first contracted as a child, damaged his heart and ultimately contributed to his death. An early British rock and roll (and film) star, he equaled the Beatles' record of 24 hits in the 1960s, and spent 332 weeks on the UK chart, without a chart-topping single or album.

People see us everywhere

They think you really care

But myself I can't deceive

I know it's only make believe

My one and only prayer

Is that someday you'll care

My hopes, my dreams come true

My one and only you

No one will ever know

How much I love you

So my only prayer will be

Someday you'll care for me

But it's only make believe

My hopes, my dreams come true

My life, I'd give for you

My heart, a wedding ring

My all, my everything

My heart, I can't control

You rule my very soul

My only prayer will be

Someday you'll care for me

But it's only make believe

My one and only prayer

Is that someday you'll care

My hopes, my dreams come true

My one and only you

No one will ever know

How much I love you so

My prayer, my hope, and my schemes

You are my every dream

But it's only make

But it's only make

But it's only make believe