![]() ![]() Chris Christian contains his rendition of his friend/engineer-producer Brown Bannister's "Mountain Top" which Chris would produce on Amy Grant's first album as well as his own "Why Does the Devil (Have All the Good Music)," and "Odessa Beggarman" which he would helm for B.J. The series rewinds to 1976 for the first Chris Christian album, his solo debut for the Myrrh label. Retroactive's reissue of Chris Christian includes a 16-page booklet with photos, lyrics, memorabilia, the artist's track-by-track liner notes, and a trading card. The latter was a Contemporary Christian hit in a version with Beckley on background vocals, but on this "pop" take, he additionally takes the second verse solo. The new reissue adds seven rare and previously unreleased bonus tracks including "Walnut Hill" with Dann Huff, an alternate version of "Last Goodbye" with David Foster, and "Day Like Today" with Gerry Beckley. ![]() on guitar, Greg Mathieson on keyboards, and Paulinho da Costa on percussion. Gaudio's lush production was ably supported by the string charts of Bergen White and Jimmie Haskell, and the crack band including Carlos Vega on drums, Dennis Bellfield on bass, Paul Jackson Jr. ![]() Michael McDonald and an accomplished performer in her own right. 21 AC medley of the Motown classics "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" and "You're All I Need to Get By" with vocalist Amy Holland, a.k.a. Valli's Four Seasons co-founder Bob Gaudio produced the album as well as playing keyboards.Ĭhris Christian's melodic, easygoing, radio-friendly California soft rock sound yielded not only the top 40 Pop/top ten AC "I Want You, I Need You" but a No. In every respect, Chris Christian is a lost "yacht rock" classic with guest spots by Christopher Cross, Bill Champlin, Tom Scott, David Hungate, Frankie Valli, Amy Holland, Cheryl Ladd, English singer-songwriter Robbie Patton, Nigel Olsson of The Elton John Band, and on its bonus tracks, David Foster and America's Gerry Beckley. Christian was the first solo artist and singer-songwriter signed to Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart's new Boardwalk Records label, and Bogart shepherded the album's single "I Want You, I Need You" to the top ten of the U.S. The most deluxe of these sets is dedicated to 1981's Chris Christian in its U.S. As Thomas told this author in 2014 of his collaborations with Christian, "We knew there was a message to the material, but we took on each song as a musical project and tried to make the best-sounding music that we could." Recently, Retroactive Records in association with Chris Christian's Home Sweet Home Records has remastered, reissued and expanded three of his albums in deluxe CD editions: one pure pop (1981's star-studded self-titled album for Boardwalk Records), one contemporary Christian (his first self-titled LP, from 1976), and one for Christmas (1988's Thinking of You This Christmas). With those latter artists and many others, Christian helped dominate the field of contemporary Christian music in the 1970s and 1980s, bringing his pop crossover acumen to that genre. ![]() Thomas, Marilyn McCoo, America's Dan Peek, and the artist whom he discovered and signed when she was just 16 years old, Amy Grant. Christian also produced and wrote songs for artists including B.J. Before long, Christian's songs were being recorded by the likes of Elvis Presley ("Love Song of the Year"), Dionne Warwick ("When the World Runs Out of Love"), and Carpenters ("(Want You) Back in My Life Again"). Chris Christian rose to prominence as one-third of the pop trio Cotton, Lloyd and Christian alongside producer Michael Lloyd (The Osmonds, Barry Manilow) and Daryl Cotton (Zoot, Olivia Newton-John). ![]()
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