Released August 27, 1982 He Set My Life to Music
(1982) Spun Gold
(1983) Release date 27 August 1982 | Label MCA Artist Barbara Mandrell Producer Tom Collins | |
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Recorded May 1982 (Nashville, TN) Genres Gospel music, Contemporary Christian music Awards Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance Similar The Best of Barbara Mandrell, Just for the Record, Spun Gold, This Is Barbara Mandrell, Moods | ||
He Set My Life to Music is the thirteenth studio album by American country artist, Barbara Mandrell. It was released in August 1982 on MCA Records and was produced by Tom Collins. The album was Mandrell's second studio album of the year and her first recording of Inspirational music.
Contents
Background and content
He Set My Life to Music as described by Bill Carpenter of Allmusic is a "A contemporary gospel album." The album contained ten tracks of mainly cover versions of a series of Gospel and Inspirational standards. It includes covers of songs such as "What a Friend We Have in Jesus", "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", and Dottie Rambo's "I Will Glory in the Cross". The album included four duets with mainly Gospel artists. "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" was recorded with B.J. Thomas, "I Turn to Him" with The Blackwood Brothers, "I Will Glory in the Cross" with Dottie Rambo, and "Through It All" with Andrae Crouch.
Release
The album was re-released many years later under the Universal Special Products. Carpenter gave the album three out of five stars. He Set My Life to Music reached #59 on the Billboard Magazine Top Country Albums chart and did not spawn any singles. For her performance, Mandrell won the Grammy award for Best Inspirational Performance in 1983. The album also won Mandrell an award for "Album by a Secular Artist" at the 1983 Dove Awards.
The album was released on an LP album, with five songs on each side of the record. The album was also released on compact disc in 1991.
Track listing
- "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" – (Charles Converse, Joseph Scriven) 3:24
- with B.J. Thomas
- "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"/"Swing Chariot" – (Wallace Willis) 2:55
- "I Turn to Him" – (W.T. Davidson) 3:14
- with The Blackwood Brothers
- "I Will Glory in the Cross" – (Dottie Rambo) 4:14
- with Dottie Rambo
- "Through It All" – (Andrae Crouch) 3:31
- with Andrae Crouch
- "He Set My Life to Music" – (Kye Fleming, Dennis Morgan) 4:36
- "He Grew the Tree" – (Chuck Lawrence) 3:56
- "Out of the Mouths of Babes" – 2:22
- "I'm Yours, Lord" – (Gary Chapman) 2:27
- "Then, Now, and Forever" – 5:50
Songs
1What a Friend We Have in Jesus3:20
2Swing Low - Sweet Chariot / Swing Down - Chariot2:53
3I Turn to Him3:12