White Heart (album)

White Heart is the first album by the contemporary Christian music band White Heart and the band's only album with Steve Green on lead vocals, released in 1982 on Home Sweet Home Records.[1][2] A year after its release, the album peaked at number 10 on the Top Inspirational Albums chart in Billboard magazine.[3] White Heart was nominated for a Grammy for their debut album (their first of two nominations) for Best Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group at the 26th Grammy Awards.[4]

White Heart
Studio album by
White Heart
ReleasedJanuary 1982
StudioGold Mine Studio and Gloser Sound Studio (Nashville, Tennessee).
GenreContemporary Christian music, Christian rock
Length40:22
LabelHome Sweet Home
ProducerDann Huff, Billy Smiley
White Heart chronology
White Heart
(1982)		 Vital Signs
(1984)

Track listing
  1. "Hold On" (Mark Gersmehl) – 3:37
  2. "You're the One" (Billy Smiley, Gersmehl) – 3:56
  3. "Listen to the Lonely" (Smiley, Gersmehl) – 3:47
  4. "He's Returning" (Gersmehl) – 4:23
  5. "Carry On" (Smiley, Gersmehl) – 3:56
  6. "Guiding Light" (Smiley) – 3:40
  7. "Everyday" (co-lead vocals with Sandi Patti) (Smiley, Dann Huff, Gary McSpadden) – 4:08
  8. "Nothing Can Take This Love" (Smiley) – 3:40
  9. "Black Is White" (Smiley, McSpadden, Michael W. Smith) – 3:14
  10. "Go Down Ninevah" (Smiley) – 4:30

Personnel

White Heart

  • Steve Green – lead vocals (1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 10), backing vocals
  • Mark Gersmehl – keyboards, synthesizer (4), organ (8), backing vocals
  • Billy Smiley – keyboards, rhythm guitar (2, 10), backing vocals (6), lead vocals (6, 10), producer
  • Dann Huff – lead and rhythm guitars, backing vocals, lead vocals (1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10), producer
  • Gary Lunn – bass
  • David Huff – drums, percussion (9, 10)

Additional Musicians

  • Phil Naish – acoustic piano (7), Rhodes piano (7)
  • Michael W. Smith – acoustic piano (9)
  • Mark Morris – percussion (1, 3–5, 7, 8)
  • Dennis Holt – percussion (8)
  • Mello Mel – percussion (9)
  • Sam Levine – saxophone (7)
  • Sandi Patti – co-lead vocals (7)
  • Greg Guidry – backing vocals (9)

Additional production

  • Chris Christian – executive producer, mixing (1, 3–6, 8, 9, 10)
  • Jeff Balding – recording (1-8), mixing (1, 3–6, 8, 9, 10)
  • Scott Hendricks – recording (9)
  • Mike Psanos – recording (10)
  • Jack Joseph Puig – mixing (2, 7), mastering at MCA Whitney Recording Studios (Los Angeles, California)
  • Michael Borum – photography
  • Kent Hunter – art direction, design

Charts
Chart (1983) Peak
position
US Top Inspirational Albums (Billboard)[5] 10

Radio singles
Year Singles Peak positions
CCM AC[6]
1983 "He's Returning" 34
1983 "Carry On" 23

References
  1. Powell, Mark Allan (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers. pp. 1033–5. ISBN 1-56563-679-1.
  2. White Heart: White Heart. Home Sweet Home Records. 1982.
  3. "White Heart - White Heart". AllMusic.
  4. "Grammy Award Nominees and Winners 1984".
  5. "Inspirational LPs" (PDF). Billboard. September 17, 1983. p. 39.
  6. Brothers, Jeffrey Lee, ed. (2003). CCM Hot Hits: AC Charts 1978 – 2001. AuthorHouse. p. 228. ISBN 1-4107-3294-0.


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