Agapeland

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Agapeland, or "Land Called Love," is a fictional place created for a series of children's Christian musical albums by Candle, Birdwing Kid's Korus, Barry McGuire, Tony Salerno, Jim and Dee Patton, Frank and Betsy Fernandez, and Agape Force in the 1970s and 1980s. Many of these have been recently re-released on CD including the multi Dove Award winning Music Machine & Bullfrogs and Butterflies series. One of these releases received one of the first "gold record" certifications for an album by a "Christian artist" (this category would not include secular artists who did a gospel recording, i.e. Elvis Presley).

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