Love Is Strange

Sonny & Fran

Love Is Strange

(E. Smith & M. Baker)
Jonware Music Corp. - BMI
Producer Sonny Throckmorton
Chalet Records Record No. 1060
Chalet Record Co., Inc. 812 16th Ave. S. Nashville, Tenn 37203
1969

Jerry Shook, Sonny Throckmorton, Pete Drake

Sonny is certainly Sonny Trockmorton, but it's not known who is Fran.

James Fron "Sonny" Throckmorton was born April 2, 1941) in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He moved to San Francisco, California after graduating from college, and first played rock & roll before switching his focus to country music at record producer Pete Drake's suggestion. By 1964, he played bass guitar for Carl Butler and Pearl Known primarily for his songwriting, 

Throckmorton has had more than 1,000 of his songs recorded by various country singers. He has also had minor success as a recording artist, having released two major-label albums: The Last Cheater's Waltz in 1978 on Mercury Records and Southern Train in 1986 on Warner Bros. Records. Throckmorton is a member of the Nashville Songwriters' Hall of Fame, and has been awarded Songwriter of the Year by both Broadcast Music Incorporated and the Nashville Songwriters Association International.   [Wikipedia]

This is probably his very first recording as a singer, prior to the pair of singles issued by Pickwick's subsidiary Hilltop Records in 1970 and 1971.

Chalet Records was headed by Bobby Bobo assisted by Chuck Howard.