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Depending on their tastes, record buyers are likely to have had one of two different reactions when they came upon the Amy Grant compilation Collection in its initial LP and cassette releases in the summer of 1986. General music fans, aware of Grant, if at all, only for her 1985 Top 40 pop hit "Find a Way," may have wondered why this one-hit wonder deserved a best-of so soon. But contemporary Christian music (CCM) fans would have been surprised that it wasn't a double album. After all, over the previous eight years, Grant had scored 22 hits on CCM radio according to CCM magazine, all but three of them in the Top Ten. Collection, originally containing only ten tracks with a running time under 40 minutes (standard for the LP era), attempted to address both these constituencies, succeeding with one more than the other. For the general pop fan, it demonstrated that there was more where "Find a Way" came from. The album largely eschewed material from Grant's first five albums, including only "Father's Eyes" from 1979's My Father's Eyes. It was dominated by songs from Grant's mature works Age to Age (1982), Straight Ahead (1984), and Unguarded (1985), with one song from A Christmas Album (1983). Those songs had all been CCM hits, but a longtime fan must have felt that they told only part of the story. And Collection looked forward as well. Each side of the LP led off with a new song, "Stay for Awhile" on the first side and "Love Can Do" on the second. Neither song had religious content (though both became CCM hits); both were very much in the synth pop style of Grant's recent music. So, for the most part, Collection satisfied Grant's new fan base while tossing a bone to the faithful. [The original cassette version added five tracks, only one of which, "All I Ever Have to Be," came from Grant's early recordings. A 1990 CD reissue added two more early tracks, giving the album better balance.]
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Michael W. Smith, ComposerLyricist - Wayne Kirkpatrick, ComposerLyricist - Brown Bannister, Producer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Amy Grant, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Amy Grant Productions under exclusive license to Sparrow Records ℗ 2007 Amy Grant Productions
Michael W. Smith, ComposerLyricist - Wayne Kirkpatrick, ComposerLyricist - Brown Bannister, Producer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Amy Grant, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Amy Grant Productions under exclusive license to Sparrow Records ℗ 2007 Amy Grant Productions
Michael W. Smith, ComposerLyricist - Brown Bannister, Producer - Doug Sax, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Amy Grant, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Amy Grant Productions under exclusive license to Sparrow Records ℗ 2007 Amy Grant Productions
Brown Bannister, Producer - Marylee Kortes, ComposerLyricist - Doug Sax, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Amy Grant, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Amy Grant Productions under exclusive license to Sparrow Records ℗ 2007 Amy Grant Productions
Gary Chapman, ComposerLyricist - Michael W. Smith, ComposerLyricist - Brown Bannister, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Amy Grant, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Adam Ayan, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2007 Amy Grant Productions under exclusive license to Sparrow Records ℗ 2007 Amy Grant Productions
Michael W. Smith, ComposerLyricist - Brown Bannister, Producer - Amy Grant, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Adam Ayan, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2007 Amy Grant Productions under exclusive license to Sparrow Records ℗ 2007 Amy Grant Productions
Michael W. Smith, ComposerLyricist - Brown Bannister, Producer - Steve Hall, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Amy Grant, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Amy Grant Productions under exclusive license to Sparrow Records ℗ 2007 Amy Grant Productions
Michael W. Smith, ComposerLyricist - Brown Bannister, Producer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Amy Grant, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Amy Grant Productions under exclusive license to Sparrow Records ℗ 2007 Amy Grant Productions
Rich Mullins, ComposerLyricist - Brown Bannister, Producer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Amy Grant, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Amy Grant Productions under exclusive license to Sparrow Records ℗ 2007 Amy Grant Productions
Gary Chapman, ComposerLyricist - Brown Bannister, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Amy Grant, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Shane Keister, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Amy Grant Productions under exclusive license to Sparrow Records ℗ 2007 Amy Grant Productions
Brown Bannister, Producer - John Thompson, ComposerLyricist - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Amy Grant, MainArtist - Michael Card, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Amy Grant Productions under exclusive license to Sparrow Records ℗ 2007 Amy Grant Productions
Brown Bannister, Producer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Amy Grant, MainArtist - Michael Card, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Amy Grant Productions under exclusive license to Sparrow Records ℗ 2007 Amy Grant Productions
Brown Bannister, Producer - Chris Christian, ComposerLyricist - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Amy Grant, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Amy Grant Productions under exclusive license to Sparrow Records ℗ 2007 Amy Grant Productions
Brown Bannister, Producer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Amy Grant, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Amy Grant Productions under exclusive license to Sparrow Records ℗ 2007 Amy Grant Productions
Gary Chapman, ComposerLyricist - Brown Bannister, Producer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Amy Grant, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Amy Grant Productions under exclusive license to Sparrow Records ℗ 2007 Amy Grant Productions
Gary Chapman, ComposerLyricist - Brown Bannister, Producer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Amy Grant, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Amy Grant Productions under exclusive license to Sparrow Records ℗ 2007 Amy Grant Productions
Rich Mullins, ComposerLyricist - Gary Chapman, ComposerLyricist - Brown Bannister, Producer, ComposerLyricist - John Thompson, ComposerLyricist - Chris Christian, ComposerLyricist - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Amy Grant, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Michael Card, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Amy Grant Productions under exclusive license to Sparrow Records ℗ 2007 Amy Grant Productions
Albumbeschreibung
Depending on their tastes, record buyers are likely to have had one of two different reactions when they came upon the Amy Grant compilation Collection in its initial LP and cassette releases in the summer of 1986. General music fans, aware of Grant, if at all, only for her 1985 Top 40 pop hit "Find a Way," may have wondered why this one-hit wonder deserved a best-of so soon. But contemporary Christian music (CCM) fans would have been surprised that it wasn't a double album. After all, over the previous eight years, Grant had scored 22 hits on CCM radio according to CCM magazine, all but three of them in the Top Ten. Collection, originally containing only ten tracks with a running time under 40 minutes (standard for the LP era), attempted to address both these constituencies, succeeding with one more than the other. For the general pop fan, it demonstrated that there was more where "Find a Way" came from. The album largely eschewed material from Grant's first five albums, including only "Father's Eyes" from 1979's My Father's Eyes. It was dominated by songs from Grant's mature works Age to Age (1982), Straight Ahead (1984), and Unguarded (1985), with one song from A Christmas Album (1983). Those songs had all been CCM hits, but a longtime fan must have felt that they told only part of the story. And Collection looked forward as well. Each side of the LP led off with a new song, "Stay for Awhile" on the first side and "Love Can Do" on the second. Neither song had religious content (though both became CCM hits); both were very much in the synth pop style of Grant's recent music. So, for the most part, Collection satisfied Grant's new fan base while tossing a bone to the faithful. [The original cassette version added five tracks, only one of which, "All I Ever Have to Be," came from Grant's early recordings. A 1990 CD reissue added two more early tracks, giving the album better balance.]
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 17 track(s)
- Total length: 01:08:49
- Main artists: Amy Grant
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Amy Grant
- Genre: Jazz Gospel
© 2007 Amy Grant Productions This Compilation ℗ 2007 Amy Grant Productions
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