Various – Our Hymns – 1989

This is another “Our favorite artists do their favourite hymns” projects. I certainly wasn’t the target audience for these projects but they did sell well as some people really enjoyed these albums. For those of you looking for anything vaguely rock The Petra track is pretty good but for the main part this is a pretty easy listening affair. Good, but easy listening.

Tracklist
1 – Michael W. Smith – Holy, Holy, Holy – 4:57
2 – Amy Grant – ‘Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus – 4:05
3 – Bruce Carroll – More Love To Thee – 3:22
4 – Kim Boyce – I Must Tell Jesus – 3:52
5 – Russ Taff – Near The Cross / My Jesus I Love Thee / Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus – 5:04
6 – Phil Keaggy – Prelude: Bach’s Bourrée / O God, Our Help In Ages Past – 7:02
7 – First Call – O Sacred Head, Now Wounded – 5:12
8 – Wayne Watson – It Is Well With My Soul – 4:37
9 – Take 6 – The Saviour Is Waiting – 4:09
10 – Petra – Onward, Christian Soldiers – 3:48

Credits
Art Direction, Design – Buddy Jackson
Coordinator [Album Coordination] – Mary Gross
Executive-Producer – Loren Balman, Michael Blanton
Photography By – Mark Tucker

Companies, etc.
Distributed By – Word (Uk) Ltd., 3XM, Emmaus Ministries, Filadelfia Forlag, Finngospel, GMI Records, Grace Music, Kir Music, La Sorgente Music, Master Music, Master-Vision-S.A., Pila Music, Sephora Diffusion, Viva Music
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Word, Inc.
Copyright © – Word, Inc.
Made By – Sleeveprint Ltd
Printed By – Sleeveprint Ltd

Take 6 – Take 6 – 1987

This is the first album from Take 6 and I believe it’s the only A Capella album we’ve uploaded to YouTube. The group started out in 1980 when Claude McKnight started to assemble a group of singers who would be know as Gentleman’s Estates Quartet. Once the band was complete they changed their name to Alliance. When they signed with Reprise Records/Warner Bros. in 1987, it was discovered that there was another group with the same name. So the band sat down and picked a new name using the level of laughter as the deciding factor and Take 6 was born. The band won two Grammy awards for this album, Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo Or Group, and Best Soul Gospel Performance By A Duo, Group, Choir Or Chorus. Humorously the song that won Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo Or Group only made it to #25 on the CCM charts. If this isn’t proof of the idiocy that was the CCM charts then I don’t know what further proof I would need.

Tracklist
1 – Gold Mine – 3:52
2 – Spread Love – 3:29
3 – If We Never Needed The Lord Before (We Sure Do Need Him Now) – 4:59
4 – A Quiet Place – 2:43
5 – Mary – 3:31
6 – David And Goliath – 4:25
7 – Get Away, Jordan – 4:23
8 – He Never Sleeps – 3:10
9 – Milky-White Way – 4:47
10 – Let The Words – 0:55

Credits
Arranged By – Mark Kibble, Mervyn Warren
Art Direction, Design [Cover] – Kav Deluxe
Engineer – Don Cobb
Executive-Producer – Jim Ed Norman
Hair – Jeffrey Johnson
Lacquer Cut By – Denny Purcell
Make-Up, Stylist [Wardrobe] – Vanessa Ware
Management – C.H.O.I.C.E., Nashville
Mastered By [Originally] – Denny Purcell
Mixed By – C. McKnight, D. Cobb, M. Kibble, M. Warren
Percussion [Finger Snaps], Effects [Sound] – David Humphries
Photography By – Jeff Katz
Producer – Claude V. McKnight III, Mark Kibble, Mervyn Warren
Vocals – Alvin Chea, Cedric Dent, Claude V. McKnight III, David Thomas, Mark Kibble, Mervyn E. Warren

Companies, etc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Reprise Records
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – WEA International Inc.
Copyright © – Reprise Records
Copyright © – WEA International Inc.
Copyright © – Mervyn Warren Music
Copyright © – Claude V. Music
Copyright © – Warner-Elektra-Asylum Music, Inc.
Copyright © – Winston Kae Music
Copyright © – Lexicon Music, Inc.
Produced For – JEN Productions, Inc.
Recorded At – Digital Recorders
Mixed At – Digital Recorders
Mastered At – Georgetown Masters
Published By – Winston Kae Music
Published By – Warner-Elektra-Asylum Music, Inc.
Published By – Mervyn Warren Music
Published By – Claude V. Music
Published By – Lexicon Music, Inc.
Pressed By – Specialty Records Corporation
Record Company – Warner Communications