🎵 AotW Amy Grant - UNGUARDED (SP-5060)

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Amy Grant
UNGUARDED
A&M SP-5060
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1. "Love of Another Kind" Amy Grant, Gary Chapman, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Rich Mullins 3:22
2. "Find a Way" Grant, Michael W. Smith 3:28
3. "Everywhere I Go" Mary Lee Kortes 4:12
4. "I Love You" Grant, Dann Huff, Smith 4:25
5. "Stepping In Your Shoes" Grant, Chris Eaton 4:37
6. "Fight" Grant, Chapman, Huff 4:42
7. "Wise Up" Kirkpatrick, Billy Simon 3:51
8. "Who to Listen to" Chapman, Tim Marsh, Mark Wright 4:22
9. "Sharayah" Grant, Eaton 4:53
10. "The Prodigal (I'll Be Waiting)" Grant, Chapman, Robbie Buchanan 5:10

  • Amy Grant: lead vocals, background vocals (2,3)
  • Michael W. Smith: Yamaha GS2 (2,3,8), Memorymoog (3)
  • Robbie Buchanan: synthesizers (1,4-7,10), acoustic piano (10), track arrangement (10), sound effects (4), drum programming (4), synthesizer bass (1,10), Yamaha DX7 (8), Roland Jupiter 8 (1), synthesizer programming (5)
  • Shane Keister: synthesizers (1,7,9), acoustic piano (1), Memorymoog (6), Fairlight (8), Fender Rhodes (5), explosion (2), synthesizer programming (3), Yamaha GS1 (3,8)
  • Dann Huff: electric guitars, guitar solo (4,5)
  • Jon Goin: electric guitars (2,3,4,6,8,9), acoustic guitar (10)
  • Michael Landau: electric guitars (2,4,7,9), guitar solo (10)
  • Paul Jackson, Jr.: electric guitars (7)
  • Mike Brignardello: bass guitar (2-9)
  • Paul Leim: drums (1,2,3,6-10), drum programming and drum overdubs (4), LinnDrum programming (7)
  • Lenny Castro: percussion (2,6,8,10)
  • Larry Williams: synthesizer and saxophone (7)
  • Diana Hanna: background vocals (1,3,8)
  • Kathy Burdick: screams (1)
  • Bill Champlin: background vocals (1,7)
  • Gary Chapman: background vocals (1,3,6,8)
  • Chris Eaton: background vocals (5)
  • Kim Fleming: background vocals (8)
  • Tommy Funderburk: background vocals (1,2,6,7)
  • Steve George: background vocals (4,9)
  • Chris Harris: background vocals (8), screams (1)
  • Tom Kelly: background vocals (2,4,6,9)
  • Donna McElroy: background vocals (8)
  • Richard Page: background vocals (4,9)
  • Gary Pigg: background vocals (8), screams (1)

  • Producer: Brown Bannister
  • Executive producers: Michael Blanton, Dan Harrell, Gary Chapman
  • Engineered and mixed by Jack Joseph Puig
  • Assistant engineers: Kevin Burns, Steven Ford, Dan Garcia, Alan Henry, J.T., Richard Markowitz, Mike Ross, Clark Schleicher
  • Mastered by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Art direction and design: Kent Hunter
  • Photography: Mark Tucker
  • Stylist: Julie Miller
Entered the Billboard Top 200 on June 15, 1985
Charted for 38 weeks and peaked at # 35

JB

(SP 5059 is a mystery item)
 
Amy Grant performed with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra (KSO) on October 20, 2006. The photo was taken after the show.
JB
 

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There are four different cover designs for this album:

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I believe that after the first year, only the first one was used (and is still used for repressing)

--Mr Bill


 
Today, May 15th, marks the 35th anniversary of Amy Grant's UNGUARDED album. It was released in 1985 and was one of those early CDs. I was fortunate to find the old Japan-for-US pressing (CD 5060) which I'm informed probably sounds better than any remasters in later years.

The four cover pictures, apparently, on the bottom of the original LP spines, had a single letter code. It was either "W", or "O", or "R" or "D". The "D" picture (leftmost above), became the default for the album over the years.
 
The code 'Word' is for the label of the same name, obviously. Distributed by A&M in the early days.

JB
 
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