This is actually Terry Clark’s first album. He recorded this one with his brother Duane and sister Nancy. Both Nancy and Duane would appear on Terry’s future albums and Duane had an album in the late 90’s. So in the end I classify this as Terry’s first album as it was self released and appears to have been a bit of an experiment. All that said this is a great album, I understand it had no distribution but I wish it would had because I think it would have done well. Terry had just come back from Vietnam before recording this album and he says that he was suffering from PTSD but this album has a great upbeat feel and there was no indication of his troubles. If you’re a fan of Terry you need to listen to this one to see where it all started for him.
Tracklist 1 – That’s Him – 2:09 2 – Nobody Like The Lord – 3:40 3 – Merry Go Round – 2:50 4 – Psalms 92 – 3:51 5 – New Song – 3:08 6 – David’s Song – 3:52 7 – Continuing Help – 3:14 8 – Love Of A King – 4:19 9 – For The World – 3:37 10 – This Could Be The Day – 2:21
This is Terry’s first album though he did have a previous album in 1974 with his wife Nancy and brother Duane as the band The Children Of Faith. After that experiment (that I haven’t listened to yet but want to) Terry and Duane joined up with Liberation Suite for their 1975 European tour. This leads us to this 1978 album. I’m kind of torn on this album. I absolutely love the upbeat tracks but I strongly dislike almost all the slower tracks with the exception of Red Cloud which is the best track on the album. The album was very well engineered/mixed by Joe Bellamy but I think the albums downfall is the final production by CCM godfather Chuck Girard. I mean the choice of Welcome as an opening track is just questionable. It is without a doubt the weakest track on the album and I think they got caught up with the whole idea of the introductory album being called Welcome so they wanted to start the album with that track. I’ll be honest when I sat down to listen to this album that opening track made me think this would be a boring album but then track 2 “Let’s Have A Good Time” comes on and know this is gonna be a great album. Terry had a knack for rock and I really wish someone would have encouraged a little more of that for this album. I haven’t listened to any more of his albums yet so I am interested to see what direction his career went. Next month we’ll cover another one and see how he does.
Tracklist 1 – Welcome – 3:46 2 – Let’s Have A Good Time – 2:01 3 – Make A Noise – 2:44 4 – Merry-Go-Round – 2:47 5 – Time Enough – 3:55 6 – Red Cloud – 4:45 7 – Ugadano Thawanu Maija – 3:41 8 – Your Love For Me – 4:00 9 – For Each Other – 2:38 10 – Oh The Love – 2:39 11 – Living Loving Eyes – 5:38
Credits Cliff Wooley – Harp Chuck Girard – Producer, Arranger, Background Vocals Terry Clark – Keyboards, Synthesizer, Strings, Arranger, Writer, Composer, Background Vocals Joe Bellamy – Recording Engineer, Mixing Engineer Emory Gordy, Jr. – Bass Jeff Porcaro – Drums Dean Parks – Guitar Gary Ferguson – Percussion Michael Porcaro – Bass Paul Humphrey – Drums The Paul Carlson Singers – Chorus Clydie King – Background Vocals Sherlie Matthews – Background Vocals Venetta Fields – Background Vocals Jon Linn – Lead Guitar Jim West – Background Vocals Ernie Watts – Saxophone Burleigh Drummond – Marimba, Percussion David Pack – Guitar Jay Truax – Background Vocals Larry Myers – Background Vocals George Bohanon – Horn Arrangements Stephen Houston – String Arrangements Jimmie Haskell – String Arrangements
