Tag: Karen Lafferty

Karen Lafferty – Bird In A Golden Sky – 1975

This was Karen’s first album. It is an extremely easy listening 70’s style album that while I didn’t care for these albums they lead the way for the ones I loved. Not that all albums from the 70’s were easy listening but many of them were. Lafferty attended Eastern New Mexico University and actually planned on a secular music career after school. But like so many of the artists we loved she moved to southern California and soon began to perform at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa. After a European tour she was signed by Maranatha! Music and the rest is history. This is the first sighting of Darrell Mansfield as this album came out before his album with Gentle Faith. That said he also appeared on Parable’s album “More Than Words” released the same year.

Tracklist
1 – Bird In A Golden Sky – 4:00
2 – Grandma Stout – 2:26
3 – Testimony – 5:48
4 – Garden – 3:16
5 – The Girl – 4:30
6 – Sweet Summer Rain – 3:55
7 – No Time For Jesus – 3:16
8 – Bobbi’s Song – 5:00
9 – Peaceful Mind / Tears Of Love – 7:47

Credits
Artwork [Stained Glass Window] – Neil Cocroft
Backing Vocals – Karen*, Peter Jacobs
Banjo, Mandolin – Fred Fields
Design [Cover] – Neal Buchanan
Electric Bass – Bruce Cotton
Guitar – Fred Fields (2), John Wytoc, Karen
Harmonica – Darrell Mansfield
Keyboards – Peter Jacobs
Lead Vocals – Karen Lafferty
Mastered By [Runout Etch] – Ralph Eck
Oboe – Karen Lafferty
Percussion – Alex MacDougall
Photography By – Dan Agulian, Diana Ham, Neal Buchanan
Producer, Arranged By – Peter Jacobs
Saw – Randy Sykes
Steel Guitar – Al Perkins
Written-By – Karen Lafferty

Companies, etc.
Recorded At – Buddy King Studios, Huntington Beach, CA
Mastered At – United Artists Recording Studio
Pressed By – Research Craft
Published By – Karen Louise Lafferty
Copyright © – Karen Louise Lafferty
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Maranatha! Music
Copyright © – Maranatha! Music
Distributed By – Musical Gospel Outreach

Various – Maranatha! Six A Family Portrait – 1977

This is the sixth in the series of well known easy listening Maranatha! Music samplers. Seems strange now to see Daniel Amos and Sweet Comfort (Band) on a sampler like this. Below are the original albums with the tracks.

1 – Karen Lafferty – Beautiful Day – Sweet Communion
2 – Bruce Herring – Perfect Will – Unreleased
3 – Sweet Comfort – Somebody Loves You – Sweet Comfort
4 – Aslan – Who Loves The Lonely – Unreleased
5 – Erick Nelson – He Gave Me Love – The Misfit
6 – Parable – The Plain Truth – Illustrations
7 – Bethlehem – Desert Songs – Bethlehem
8 – Becky Ugartechea – Nightengale – Unreleased
9 – Daniel Amos – Father’s Arms – Shotgun Angel
10 – Bob & Joy Cull – Sail Away – Windborne

Tracklist
1 – Karen Lafferty – Beautiful Day – 4:21
2 – Bruce Herring – Perfect Will – 3:51
3 – Sweet Comfort – Somebody Loves You – 3:01
4 – Aslan – Who Loves The Lonely – 3:54
5 – Erick Nelson – He Gave Me Love – 3:55
6 – Parable – The Plain Truth – 3:33
7 – Bethlehem – Desert Songs – 3:40
8 – Becky Ugartechea – Nightengale – 3:53
9 – Daniel Amos – Father’s Arms – 4:23
10 – Bob & Joy Cull – Sail Away – 4:15

Companies, etc.
Pressed By – Monarch Record Mfg. Co.
Distributed By – Word, Inc.
Copyright © – Maranatha! Music
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Maranatha! Music