Description
Growing Together is an album by the American pop group The Good News Circle, released on Light Records in 1974. The album was recorded by Richard “Magic Kyle” Adler at Universal Recording Studio in Chicago, Illinois; with band member Ralph Hunt producing together with the band. The group features Bob Laurent, Ralph Hunt, Kathy Brawley, Pam Murphy, and Mark Johnson. The group broke up in 1979 and everyone went on to serve the Lord in different ways as minister missionarys or singing.
This band actually put out quite a few records in the ‘70s, though most are too mellow, polished or just plain bland for my tastes. Surprisingly, Growing Together has more of a “Jesus music” light rock and pop feel rather than the expected Christian radio sound. Production is squeaky clean, making the acoustic guitars, drums and keyboards stand out distinctly. Vocals pretty clean, too. In the couple ballads where string arrangements were added there’s a pleasant nostalgic ‘70s ‘Precious And Few’ kind of pop sentiment. Self-written songs, the best being «Retrospect» which slinks along with some nice electric leads over funky wah-wah rhythm guitar. Not really edge music, but much better than I expected. In fact I even like it! [Ken Scott, The Archivist]
LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. “What A Way To Go”
A2. “Innocent Man”
A3. “The Potter’s Clay (Thank You, Lord)”
A4. “Jesus Is Alive And Well”
A5. “Offering (I Cor. 6:20)”
Side Two
B1. “Here And Back Again”
B2. “Country Faith”
B3. “Retrospect”
B4. “Helpless”
B5. “Growing Together” / “Memories And Miracles”
Good News Circle TV Special
Good News Circle performing “I Just Wanna Talk about Jesus” at Billy Graham Crusade in Lubbock, Texas, 1975.
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