Description
I Looked for Love is a musical composed by Ralph Carmichael featuring The Young People (credited “Ralph Carmichael’s Contemporary Sounds”), released on Light Records in 1968. The album was recorded by Hugh Davies at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, California; with Lee Gillette producing.
The album track “A Quiet Place” was later covered by Take 6 on their self-titled debut album released in 1988.
A pop/easy listening album from Ralph – one of those records that’s so mellow it makes Evie sound like Motorhead. Smooth billowy male/female harmonies dish out ten Ralph-written standards like the title track, «A Quiet Place», «One Of These Days», «The Ballad Of St. Peter» and «Love Is Surrender» (which would be featured on The Carpenters’ Close To You album). All titles are given easy ’60s pop arrangements that are heavily sautéed in string and horns. Potential elevator groovitude given the proper mood. [Ken Scott, The Archivist, 4th edition]
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LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. “I Looked For Love” – 3:10
A2. “A Quiet Place” – 2:40
A3. “You Can Touch Him If You Try” – 2:31
A4. “A Living Circle” – 3:25
A5. “One Of These Days” – 2:34
Side Two
B1. “Love Is Surrender” – 3:30
B2. “I’m Gonna Go Back” – 2:05
B3. “There Is More To Life” – 3:56
B4. “The Ballad Of St. Peter” – 5:39
B5. “Land Without Tears” – 3:40
In the second half of the 1960s Ralph Carmichael founded Light Records, and Billy Ray Hearn started working with him. He helped Carmichael and Kurt Kaiser develop the concepts for their youth musicals ‘Tell It Like It Is‘ (Light Records 1969) and Natural High (Light Records 1971), and became their marketing director. This led to his doing the same thing for Jimmy Owens’ musical, Come Together (Light Records 1972), as he became known as the “contemporary guy.” Over the next four years Hearn worked overtime helping to shift the musical direction of Word Records and the Evangelical church, and after producing a number of musicals for children and youth he began the Myrrh label in 1972, a contemporary imprint of Word Records. He had tapes that were sent in from many of the new Christian music artists that weren’t signed to a record label yet, like the 2nd Chapter of Acts, Phil Keaggy and Randy Matthews, to name some. They saw where Hearn was going and wanted him to take them with him. The Myrrh label introduced Word’s audience to an entirely new kind of Christian music, called Jesus music. Many of the people who played it came out of the “peace, flower child and hippie movements” that were the counter culture of the 1960’s.
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