Description
For Pete’s Sake! is an original motion picture soundtrack composed, arranged, and conducted by the American composer Ralph Carmichael (May 27, 1927 – October 18, 2021) for a movie by the same name produced by Billy Graham Films. The LP – featuring Ralph Carmichael and The Young People – was released on Sacred-stereo in 1966.
Ralph is recognized as the Father of Contemporary Christian Music because of his focus on creating religious music for the new generation of the 1960’s and beyond. In 1968 he founded Light Records and Lexicon Music Publishing to promote new Christian artists and composers in addition to his own music, including projects that were considered too risky for mainstream labels. He also served for several years as president of the Gospel Music Association.
LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. “He’s Everything To Me” – 2:10
A2. “There Is More To Life” – 3:56
A3. “Beyond All Time” – 3:26
A4. “The Numbers Song” – 2:47
A5. “All My Life” – 2:37
Side Two
B1. “The Restless Ones” – 3:21
B2. “A Life Worth Living” – 2:34
B3. “Hear My Prayer” – 2:30
B4. “Seek Me With All Your Heart” – 0:37
B5. “Miracle Of Grace” – 2:36
B6. “The Man” – 2:42
Note: The album tracks “The Restless Ones”, b/w “He’s Everything To Me”, was released as a two-sided 7-inch single.
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 4 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. 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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