Tell It Like It Is (album)
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Tell It Like It Is is the seventh studio album 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 Billy Joe Royal
Billy Joe Royal
Billy Joe Royal is an American singer.-Biography:Born in Valdosta and raised in Marietta in 1942, Royal became a local star at Savannah, Georgia's Bamboo Ranch in the 1950s and 1960s...

. It was released on January 31, 1989 via Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...

. The album peaked at number 15 on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
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Top Country Albums chart.

Track listing

  1. "Tell It Like It Is
    Tell It Like It Is
    "Tell It Like It Is" is a song written by George Davis and Lee Diamond. It was first recorded by Aaron Neville, who released the song as a single in 1966. It was issued at the end of the year on the Par-Lo label and became a hit, peaking at number two on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and at number...

    " (George Davis, Lee Diamond) – 2:59
  2. "Kiss and Say Goodbye" (Winfred "Blue" Lovett) – 3:17
  3. "Slip Away" (Nelson Larkin, Pal Rakes
    Pal Rakes
    Palmer Crawford "Pal" Rakes is an American country music singer. He recorded for Warner Bros. Records between 1977 and 1979, and for Atlantic Records between 1988 and 1989. During his tenure on Warner, he charted in the Top 40 of Hot Country Songs with "That's When the Lyin' Stops " and "Till I...

    , Ron Reynolds) – 3:13
  4. "He Don't Know" (Reynolds) – 2:51
  5. "Cross My Heart and Hope to Try" (John Alexander, Larkin, Rakes) – 2:57
  6. "Love Has No Right
    Love Has No Right
    "Love Has No Right" is a single by American country pop artist Billy Joe Royal. Released in 1989, it was the second single from the album Tell it Like it Is. The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart....

    " (Larkin, Billy Joe Royal, Randy Scruggs
    Randy Scruggs
    Randy Scruggs is a music producer, songwriter and guitarist. He had his first recording at the age of 13...

    ) – 3:03
  7. "The Truth Is I Lied" (Donny Kees, Rakes, Richard Ross) – 2:55
  8. "Till I Can't Take It Anymore
    Till I Can't Take It Anymore
    "Till I Can't Take It Anymore" is a song written by Clyde Otis and Ulysses Burton. It was first recorded as a duet between Dottie West and Don Gibson, whose version went to number 46 on the Hot Country Songs charts in 1970. Since then, it has also charted as a single by Andra Willis, whose version...

    " (Ullysses Burton, Clyde Otis
    Clyde Otis
    Clyde Otis, born in Prentiss, Mississippi, , was an American songwriter and producer best known for his collaboration with singer Brook Benton, and for being one of the first African American A&R executive for a major label.According to the music licensing organization Broadcast Music Inc., Otis is...

    ) – 4:00
  9. "I Was Losing You" (Bruce Burch) – 3:34
  10. "What's the Matter Baby" (Joy Byers, Otis) – 3:27
  11. "Love Is a Full Time Job" (Bobby Borchers
    Bobby Borchers
    Robert Jerome "Bobby" Borchers is an American country music singer.Borchers was raised in Kentucky. He learned to play guitar at age twelve, and got his first break in the mid-1970s, when Tanya Tucker recorded his song "Jamestown Ferry." In the mid-1970s, recorded for the Playboy Records label...

    , B. Gallee, P. Wolfe) – 3:27

Chart performance

Chart (1989) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 15
Canadian RPM Country Albums 31
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