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"It's Only the Beginning" is a song by Australian singer songwriter Deborah Conway. It was released as the first single from her debut studio album String of Pearls (1991). It peaked at number 19 in Australia in August 1991.[1]

"It's Only the Beginning"
CD single cover
Single by Deborah Conway
from the album String of Pearls
B-side	"Deborah Conway's Nightmare #347"
Released	June 1991
Recorded	1990
Genre	Pop/rock
Label	Mushroom Records
Songwriter(s)	Deborah Conway and Scott Cutler
Producer(s)	Richard Pleasance
Deborah Conway singles chronology
"Feel Like Makin' Love" (1990) "It's Only the Beginning" (1991) "Under My Skin" (1991)

The song was written by Conway and American songwriter Scott Cutler. When the song was first completed, Conway said she felt "embarrassed", lamenting to her former Do-Re-Mi bandmate, Dorland Bray: “It’s so happy, I can’t cope, what am I doing?”. Together they rewrote the song. “I tried to cloak it, disguise its happiness,” Conway recalls. But she finally gave in to the joy of it. “The recorded version is the original lyric without the de-happifying of it.” [2]

At the ARIA Music Awards of 1992, the song was nominated for four awards. 'Single of the Year' and 'Song of the Year' losing out to Yothu Yindi's "Treaty" and 'Breakthrough Artist - single' losing out to Baby Animals' "Early Warning, while Richard Pleasance was nominated for Producer of the Year but lost to Simon Hussey.[3]

Track listings

CD Single/ 7″

1. "It's Only The Beginning"
2. "Deborah Conway's Nightmare #347"

Weekly charts

Chart (1991)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)[4]	19

Cover versions

• Beccy Cole covered the song for her 2010 album Preloved.

References

External links

• "Deborah Conway –"It's Only the Beginning"". discogs.com. Retrieved 4 June 2016.

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