Description
Sing Your Praise to the Lord, sub-titled A Contemporary Christian Music Experience, is a multi-artist triple disc compilation featuring selected track by the leading pop/rock artists currently signed to or distributed by Word Records, released on Word in 1984. Also released in the UK.
3LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. David Meece – “Gloria” – 3:59 (from Count the Cost, Myrrh 1983)
A2. Amy Grant – “Where Do You Hide Your Heart” – 3:56 (from Straight Ahead, Myrrh 1984)
A3. Benny Hester – “Melody Man” – 3:17 (from Legacy, Myrrh 1983)
A4. Joni Eareckson Tada – “Spirit Wings” – 4:43 (from Spirit Wings, Word 1982)
A5. Michael W. Smith – “Great Is The Lord” – 2:52 (from Michael W. Smith Project, Reunion 1983)
Side Two
B1. The Imperials – “Stand By The Power” – 3:33 (from Stand by the Power, DaySpring 1982)
B2. B.J. Thomas – “Home Where I Belong” – 3:02 (from Home Where I Belong, Myrrh 1976)
B3. Teri Desario – “Battleline” – 3:40 (from A Call to Us All, DaySpring 1983)
B4. Bobby Jones (duet with Barbara Mandrell) – “I’m So Glad I’m Standing Here Today” – 4:23 (from Come Together, Myrrh 1983)
B5. White Heart – “Carry On” – 3:56 (from White Heart, Home Sweet Home 1982)
Side Three
C1. Russ Taff – “Jeremiah” – 4:02 (from Walls of Glass, Myrrh 1983)
C2. Petra – “More Power To Ya” – 3:37 (from More Power to Ya, StarSong 1982)
C3. Leon Patillo – “Star Of The Morning” – 3:48 (from Don’t Give In, Myrrh 1981)
C4. Dion – “I Put Away My Idols” – 3:08 (from I Put Away My Idols, DaySpring 1983)
C5. Mylon & Broken Heart – “More” – 3:52 (from More, Myrrh 1983)
Side Four
D1. Joe English – “Stop” – 3:30 (from Press On, Myrrh 1983)
D2. Leslie Phillips – “Heart Of Hearts” – 3:14 (from Beyond Saturday Night, Myrrh 1983)
D3. Evie – “A Picture Of You” – 3:50 (from Unfailing Love, Word 1981)
D4. Mylon LeFevre – “Givers And Takers” – 4:18 (from More, Myrrh 1983)
D5. Russ Taff – “We Will Stand” – 4:37 (from Walls of Glass, Myrrh 1983)
Side Five
E1. Kathy Troccoli – “Once In A Lifetime Love” (from Stubborn Love, Reunion 1982)
E2. The Imperials – “Praise The Lord” (from Heed the Call, DaySpring 1979)
E3. Dion – “The Best” (from Only Jesus, DaySpring 1981)
E4. Leon Patillo – “Cornerstone” (from I’ll Never Stop Lovin’ You, Myrrh 1982)
E5. B.J. Thomas – “Happy Man” (from Happy Man, Myrrh 1978)
Side Six
F1. The Imperials – “Lord Of The Harvest” (from Legacy, DaySpring 1982)
F2. Amy Grant – “My Father’s Eyes” (from My Father’s Eyes, Myrrh 1979)
F3. Petra – “The Coloring Song” (from Never Say Die, StarSong 1981)
F4. Benny Hester – “Nobody Knows Me Like You” (from Nobody Knows Me Like You, Myrrh 1981)
F5. Michael W. Smith – “Friends” (from Michael W. Smith Project, Reunion 1983)
Note: Released on both cassette (3 tapes) and 12-inch vinyl triple LP by Word (housed in a gatefold sleeve).
Gatefold Cover, Inside
Liner Notes, printed on the inside of the gatefold sleeve:
DAVID MEECE
With the energy of two people, the vocal range of four and the talent of about eight, David Meece makes a unique contribution to the sounds of contemporary Christin music. The proverbial child prodigy, he was trained to be a classical pianist and even performed with several symphonies while still a teenager. Now, his classical training provides a refreshing foundation to his delightful Christian pop music which he writes, plays, sings and records for a very appreciative young audience.AMY GRANT
She’s barely twenty-three years old and she has already recorded eight of the best Christian albums produced to date. She’s been portrayed by the press as the young woman most teenage girls wish they could be like, the daughter most parents would like to have, the young person most adults wish they had been. However you perceive her, she is undoubtedly the most popular contemporary Christian artist today. She’s Amy Grant.BENNY HESTER
Benny Hester is one of few artists to enjoy success in both the contemporary Christian and secular music arenas. He got his start as singer and guitarist with premiere rock’n’roll bands. Now after a few fast-moving years of recording and playing in major halls in Las Vegas, Hollywood and all up and down the West Coast, he’s returned to the faith of his childhood and is one of the shining lights in religious music. Benny has released three great albums … “Nobody Knows Me Like You,” “Be A Receiver” and his latest “Legacy.”JONI EARECKSON TADA
In June of 1967 at the age of 17, Joni Eareckson Tada took a reckless dive into the Chesapeake Bay that left her paralyzed from the shoulders down. Since then, through her books, two motion pictures, her organization responding to the needs of the disabled, her seminars and now her singing, her life is an inspiration to all who struggle with the problem of pain and suffering.MICHAEL W. SMITH
Michael W. Smith writes the songs the whole world sings – and wishes they’d written first. In a few short years, he has become one of contemporary Christian music’s best-loved writers, penning such hits as “How Majestic Is Your Name” for Sandi Patti, “Wasn’t It a Short Forever,” his own “Hosanna,” “Great Is the Lord” and a half dozen more with Amy Grant.IMPERIALS
For twenty years the Imperials have been the foremost contemporary Christian group in the country. In those years they’ve won every award their industry has to offer, sold untold millions of albums, ministered in every state and in many foreign countries. The first gospel group to appear on national TV, they have now won 13 Dove Awards, released something like thirty-three albums and ministered to millions of hungry souls.B.J. THOMAS
First known for his secular hits such as “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” and “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” B.J. Thomas is now recognized as well for his contemporary gospel music. His first album on Myrrh was “Home Where I Belong.” It thrilled Christians across the nation to hear B.J.’s sensitive voice at last singing Christian music. It also thrilled the critics and the recoding industry, enough so that “Home…” brought home a Grammy award, a Dove award, and Record World’s Gospel album of the year.TERI DeSARIO
Every once in a great while an artist arrives with a message straight from the heart, singing songs that ask the hard questions and seek the whole truth. Teri DeSario is such and artist and her music shines with transparent honesty, hard-won insight and time tested hope. If you feel you’ve heard everything that Christians in modern music have to offer, you will be in for an eye-and-ear opening surprise when you hear Teri DeSario.BOBBY JONES
When the history of music is written, Bobby Jones will be there. A Gospel singer with a Ph.D. degree, his awards include Nahsville’s Citizen of the Year, 1978, keys to 15 towns in Tennessee and Kentucky for his work with the Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation, 53 outstanding awards for musical contributions, the International Film Festival 1980 Award as writer and performer for the PBS TV special “Make a Joyful Noise” described as “the first black opera” and rated as one of the top 100 shows in the world in the Venice, Italy festival, and many more. As we said, Bobby Jones is making history.WHITE HEART
Two years time has seen the transformation of six studio musicians and staff writers (who have worked with the likes of Sandi Patti, the Imperials, and Chris Christian) into White Heart, a name band that has become familiar to any serious listener of Christian music. From their first album debut in February 1983, White Heart has shown its ability to perform its repertoire of contemporary pop, rhythm and blues and rock with both the craftmanship of studio musicians and a vital, spiritual power.RUSS TAFF
“One of the most charismatic, electrifying voices in music today, a trumpet-like instrument that can sound soulful and bluesy, soft and tender, tough and abrasive, broading and melancholy in the course of a few bars.” That’s how one music critic described Russ Taff, son of a traveling Pentecostal preacher and former lead singer of the legendary Imperials. Now a winner of his own 1983 Grammy award for Best Male Gospel Performance, he is off and running on a solo track, making concerts across the country, all the way to Israel and the South Pacific.LEON PATILLO
From a stint as lead singer and songwriter for the fiery Latin rock group Santana, to contemporary Christian musician, Leon Patillo has been a force to be reckoned with. Since leaving Santana he’s recorded several albums, seen a number of his songs become classics (“Temple in the Sky,” “Born Again,” “John 3:17,” “Go,” “Flesh of My Flesh,” “Cornerstone” and “Sing Unto the Lord”), received Grammy nominations, appeared on a number of major television and video specials and seen a number of the rock musicians he witnessed to in the past come to the Lord.DION
He was the teen rave of an earlier generation, of the bobby-soxers and the early rock’n’rollers. Before the Beatles forever changed the shape of popular music, Dion DiMucci ruled with hits like “Runaround Sue,” “Ruby Baby,” “The Wanderer,” and “Donna the Prima Donna.” Today Dion has something more important on his mind, spreading the joyful message of Jesus Christ. Dino’s current recordings include “Inside Job,” “Only Jesus” and “I Put Away My Idols.”MYLON LeFEVRE
Mylon was one of the Singing LeFevres, a gospel music tradition since the early 1920s. But after more than three dozen albums with the LeFevres, he left to find his own sound. He found it, but in the process, lost himself to drugs and excesses. Now, with renewed faith, he has recorded his first religious album in over ten years, called, appropriately, “Brand New Start.”JOE ENGLISH
After five years performing Christian music, Joe English still carries the tag, “Paul McCartney’s ex-drummer.” But that’s quickly changing. He now sings of the redemptive power of Christ with a crack contemporary rock band that performs so crisply and earnestly that he is bound to be known soon, not for what he was, but what he is – an instrument of Jesus Christ.LESLIE PHILLIPS
At ten years old, a Christian musical brought Leslie Philips to the realization that God is not just for grandmas. The first exposure caused Leslie to commit her life to Christ. And for twelve years now she’s helped others with their own commitment, through her music. Now she continues to share that gift with her first album, “Beyond Saturday Night.”EVIE KARLSSON
As a high school student from Rahway, New Jersey, Evie spent every fourth week abroad in exciting places like Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Holland, giving concerts and appearing on television. Now her life has become even more involved, traveling almost all the time touching down in places like Detroit, London, Seattle, Sidney, New York, Los Angeles, and even Waco, Texas.KATHY TROCCOLI
When a young lady from Brooklyn is the first artist signed to Blanton and Harrell’s new Reunion Records label, she must have something on the ball. When you hear Kathy Troccoli’s voice, you know the reason why. Her debut album “Stubborn Love” was one of the success stories of 1983. She recently finished her second album for Reunion and is on the road sharing God’s grace in song in a voice people will sit up and listen to.PETRA
Petra. The name means rock. And Petra the group, more often that not, has found itself on the far side of Contemporary Christian music. Yet today they are the most popular contemporary Christian rock group around. Their message, well, it’s to bring the gospel to the young in the music of today. To reach the non-believer with the testimony of Jesus Christ. Petra’s list of recordings is long and impressive including top selling “Not of This World,” “More Power To Ya” and “Never Say Die.”
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