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1980 studio album by Amy Grant
Never Alone is the third studio album by
Christian singer
Amy Grant , released in 1980 through
Myrrh Records .
By this point in her life, Grant had entered her second year at
Furman University and developed a budding relationship with studio songwriter and future husband
Gary Chapman . The three songs from the album that they co-wrote obscurely describe their on-again, off-again dating relationship. Although Never Alone was not as popular as its predecessor, the 1979 album
My Father's Eyes , it still managed to score a Top Ten Christian hit in "Look What Has Happened to Me".
The album is excluded from Grant's 2007 digital box set The Storyteller Collection , which encompasses all of Grant's non-Christmas studio albums from her
1977 self-titled debut to
Simple Things (2003).
Legacy... Hymns and Faith (2002) and
Rock of Ages... Hymns and Faith (2005), were the other studio albums not included at the time of the box set's release. Never Alone' s omission from the box set may also reaffirm the album's low popularity.
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Track listing
Title Writer(s) 1. "Look What Has Happened to Me"
Brown Bannister ,
Gary Chapman 3:15 2. "So Glad"
Amy Grant , Bannister,
Chris Christian 4:43 3. "Walking Away with You" Grant, Chapman, Christian 4:25 4. "Family" Grant 2:44 5. "Don't Give Up on Me" Grant, Bannister, Chapman 3:59 6. "That's the Day" Bruce Hibbard, Hadley Hockensmith,
Kelly Willard 3:43 7. "If I Have to Die" Grant 3:48 8. "All I Ever Have to Be" Chapman 2:36 9. "It's a Miracle" Chapman, Christian 2:45 10. "Too Late" Grant, Bannister, Christian 3:14 11. "First Love" Dawn Rodgers 2:50 12. "Say Once More" Brian Carr, Gwen Moore 2:27
Personnel
Amy Grant – lead vocals
Larry Muhoberac – acoustic piano (1, 3, 9, 10)
Shane Keister – string arrangements (1, 7), synthesizers (2, 3, 11), acoustic piano (2, 6, 7)
Thomas Cain – backing vocals (3), acoustic piano (5)
Trantham Whitley – keyboards (4)
Clayton Ivey –
Fender Rhodes (5)
Jerry Roberts – accordion (6)
Bruce Dees – backing vocals (1, 3, 5, 9), electric guitar (5)
Tim May – electric guitar (1, 3, 9, 10)
Billy Joe Walker Jr. – electric guitar (1, 3, 9, 10), acoustic guitar (4, 11)
Pete Bordonali – electric guitar (2, 3, 7), classical guitar (8)
Johnny Christopher – acoustic guitar (2, 4)
Jimmy Capps – acoustic guitar (4)
David Hungate – bass (1, 3, 9, 10)
Jack Williams – bass (2, 7)
Joe Schmee – bass (4, 11)
Bob Wray – bass (5)
Paul Leim – drums (1, 3, 9, 10)
Clay Caire – drums (2, 7)
Roger Clark – drums (5)
Jimmy Maelen – percussion (1)
Fred Petry – percussion (3, 4)
Farrell Morris – percussion (4, 7),
bass marimba (12)
Mark Morris – percussion (12)
Denis Solee – flute (1, 7, 11), saxophone (1, 7),
lyricon (8)
Cindy Reynolds –
harp (7)
Lewis Del Gatto – horns (9)
John Darnall – string arrangements (2)
Ronn Huff – string arrangements (3, 8)
Don Hart – horn arrangements (5)
Greg Gordon – backing vocals (1, 9)
Steve Brantley – backing vocals (3)
Diana DeWitt – backing vocals (3, 6, 10, 12)
Brown Bannister – backing vocals (5)
Patti Leatherwood – backing vocals (5)
Belinda West – backing vocals (5)
Gary Chapman – backing vocals (6)
Gary Pigg – backing vocals (6, 10, 12)
Production
Brown Bannister – producer, mixing
Michael Blanton – executive producer
Jimmy Birch – engineer, mixing
Jack Joseph Puig – engineer
Glenn Meadows – mastering at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee)
Michael Harris – design
Mike Borum – photography
Charts
Weekly charts
Year
Chart
Position
1980
Top Inspirational Albums
1
End of year charts
Year
Chart
Position
1980
U.S. Billboard Inspirational Albums
25
1981
5
References
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