Love Is the Look You're Looking for is the fifth compilation by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist, Connie Smith

Connie Smith

Connie Smith is an American country music artist. She began her career in 1963 after winning a local talent contest near Columbus, Ohio, which attracted the attention of country songwriter Bill Anderson...

. The album was released in February 1973 on RCA Victor Records and was produced by Bob Ferguson

Bob Ferguson (music)

Robert Bruce "Bob" Ferguson Sr was an American songwriter, record producer who was instrumental in establishing Nashville, Tennessee as a center of country music; movie producer, and Choctaw Indian historian. Ferguson wrote the bestselling songs "On the Wings of a Dove" and "The Carroll County...

. The album contained the Top 10 hit single that year, "Love Is the Look You're Looking for."

Background

Love Is the Look You're Looking for consisted of ten tracks of previously-recorded material from Smith's past albums in the 1960s, including "How Great Thou Art" from 1969's Back in Baby's Arms

Back in Baby's Arms

Back in Baby's Arms is the thirteenth studio album by American country artist, Connie Smith. The album was released in October 1969 and was produced by Bob Ferguson. It was Smith's third and final album released in 1969.- Background and release :...

, "Burning a Hole in My Mind" from 1968's I Love Charley Brown

I Love Charley Brown

I Love Charley Brown is the tenth studio album by American country music artist, Connie Smith. The album was released in April 1968 and was produced by Bob Ferguson. The album contained three Top 10 hit singles Smith had between 1967 and 1968....

, and "It's Now or Never" from 1966's Downtown Country

Downtown Country

Downtown Country is the sixth studio album by American country artist, Connie Smith. The album was released in January 1967 on RCA Victor Records and was produced by Bob Ferguson...

. The only new songs included on the album was the title track and "If I Could Just Get Over You," as Smith had recently ended her contract with RCA Victor Records and switched to Columbia Records

Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...

. The album was released on a 12-inch LP album

LP record

The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...

, with five songs on each side of the record.

Release

Love Is the Look You're Looking for spawned one single, the album's title track. The song was released as the third and final single of 1972 that December, becoming a Top 10 hit in the United States and Canada by the following year. The song peaked at #8 on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 chart and #6 on the Canadian RPM

RPM (magazine)

RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...

Country Tracks chart. The album itself peaked at #24 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart upon its release in February 1973.

Side one

1. "Love Is the Look You're Looking for" – (Rose Lee Mathis)
2. "How Great Thou Art
   How Great Thou Art
   How Great Thou Art may refer to:*"How Great Thou Art" by Carl Boberg*How Great Thou Art *How Great Thou Art *How Great Thou Art, an album by The Statler Brothers...
   
   " – (Stuart K. Hine)
3. "It'll Be Easy" – (Jan Crutchfield)
4. "Burning a Hole in My Mind" – (Cy Coben)
5. "Ain't Had No Lovin'" – (Dallas Frazier
   Dallas Frazier
   Dallas Frazier is an American country musician and songwriter who had success in the 1950s and 60s.-Biography:Frazier was born in Spiro, Oklahoma but was raised in Bakersfield, California...
   
   )

Side two

1. "If I Could Just Get Over You" – (Kay Arnold)
2. "Born to Sing" – (Cy Coben)
3. "Cry, Cry, Cry," – (Shirley Wood)
4. "It's Now or Never
   It's Now or Never (song)
   "It's Now or Never" is a popular song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Gladys Music, Elvis Presley's publishing company, in 1960. The melody of the song is adapted from the Italian standard, "'O Sole Mio", but the inspiration for it came from the song, "There's No Tomorrow", recorded by...
   
   " – (Wally Gold, Aaron Schroeder
   Aaron Schroeder
   Aaron Schroeder was an American songwriter and music publisher.-Biography:Born Aaron Harold Schroder , he graduated from the school now known as the Fiorello H...
   
   )
5. "Pas Souvent (Once a Day)" – (Bill Anderson)

Sales chart positions

Albums

Chart (1973)	Peak position
U.S. Top Country Albums	24

Singles

Year	Song	Chart positions
		US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...	CAN Country
1972	"Love Is the Look You're Looking for"	8	6