Have Yourself Committed / A Child’s Love [12-inch single]

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“Have Yourself Committed” – b/w “A Child’s Love” – is a two-sided 45 RPM 12-inch vinyl single by the American singer and songwriter Bryan Duncan of Sweet Comfort Band fame, released on Light Records in 1985 (catalogue number LS-705P). Both tracks were taken from Duncan’s full-length album Have Yourself Committed released on Light Records the same year, produced, recorded, and mixed by Larry Brown at Pakaderm Studios in Los Alamitos, California. Arranged by Dennis Brown, Larry Brown, and Bryan Duncan. Vocals arranged by Bryan Duncan, Larry Brown, and Bob Carlisle. Both tracks written by Bryan Duncan.

Have Yourself Committed was released in 1985, and the title song was both funny and deadly serious for me. I had lost my sense of identity during those years in Sweet Comfort Band. When someone asked me how I was doing, I’d say, “Oh, we’re fine,” as if I were more than one person. Being torn from those relationships was both traumatic and exhilarating. I was depressed because I really felt I had ruined my life – and really kind of excited because I was finally free. I was nuts, so the song suited me fine.

«A Child’s Love» was inspired by my son, Brandon, and was the last song I wrote for Have Yourself Committed. It was written in the first year and a half of my first child’s life. I remember distinctly the change of the seasons during that time with my firstborn. We had roses planted by the front door of our home. I remember sitting on the porch with Brandon and watching the petals begin to fall off the roses because of the cold air. It reminded me that my life, too, had begun a transition to a new season. The record company felt as if the album needed a gentle, poignant moment, and this song turned out to be the best one on the record (and one of my personal Top Five songs I’ve written).

Bryan Duncan, June 1995.

[Excerpt from the CD-booklet featured in the Bryan Duncan compilation The Light Years]

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12-inch Vinyl Single tracklist:

Side A. “Have Yourself Committed” – 3:27
Side B. “A Child’s Love” – 3:57

Note: For Promotion Only, Not For Sale.

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