Face to Face (Cissy Houston album)

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Face To Face
Face To Face album cover.jpeg
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 26, 1996 (U.S.)
Recorded1995, 1996 (Hit Factory, NY & BKB Studio, NJ)
Genre Gospel, R&B
Length60:47
Label House of Blues Music/BMG Music
Producer Cissy Houston, Jimmy Vivino
Cissy Houston chronology
Midnight Train to Georgia
(1995)
Face To Face
(1996)
He Leadeth Me
(1997)

Face To Face is the sixth studio album by American gospel/soul singer Cissy Houston, released in 1996 on the House of Blues Music distributed by BMG. [1] The album features the spiritual anthems "Amazing Grace" and "Go Where I Send Thee", as well as gospel version of Holland-Dozier's "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)". Houston co-arranged and co-produced the album, as well as writing six of the album's tracks. Her son, singer Gary Houston contributed backing vocals on the song "God Don't Ever Change".

Contents

Houston received a Grammy Award in 1997 for Best Traditional Gospel Album of 1996. [2]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."God Don't Ever Change"
  • Willie Johnson
  • John Emery
3:18
2."The Lord Will Make a Way Somehow"Thomas A. Dorsey4:22
3."How Sweet It Is"6:39
4."I'm Somebody" Cissy Houston 3:47
5."Amazing Grace" 4:42
6."Too Close to Heaven"Alex E. Bradford, Jr5:50
7."Without God"Cissy Houston5:11
8."Something's Bound to Happen"
  • Cissy Houston
  • Joseph L. Knight
6:18
9."Just Tell Him"Cissy Houston4:58
10."Face to Face"Cissy Houston6:19
11."Go Where I Send Thee" 3:51
12."He is the Music"
  • Cissy Houston
  • Joel Moss
  • Ouida Harding
5:11

Source [3]

Personnel

Credits

Mixed at Signet Sound, Hollywood CA.
Edited & mastered at DigiSonics, Tarzana, CA
House of Blues Music Co., BMG Distribution

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