Ordinary Just Won't Do

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Ordinary Just Won't Do
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 9, 1989
Studio
  • Studio A (Dearborn Heights, Michigan)
  • Pre-production at Billy Meadows Studio (Detroit, Michigan)
Genre Gospel music
Length42:13
Label Light Records
Producer
Commissioned chronology
Will You Be Ready?
(1989)
Ordinary Just Won't Do
(1989)
State Of Mind
(1990)

Ordinary Just Won't Do is the fifth album by American contemporary gospel music group Commissioned, released in 1989 on Light Records.

Contents

Domestically, the album peaked at number 4 on the US Billboard Top Gospel albums chart and number 28 on the Billboard Top Contemporary Christian chart. [1]

Track listing

  1. "Back in the Saddle" (Michael Brooks) – 4:40
  2. "Ordinary Just Won't Do" (Mitchell Jones, Parkes Stewart) – 5:08
  3. "If My People" (Brooks) – 4:22
  4. "Heart of Mine" (Fred Hammond) – 5:13
  5. "A Life That Shows" (Hammond) – 4:18
  6. "No More Loneliness" (Jones, Stewart) – 4:41
  7. "There's No Excuse" (Brooks) – 4:56
  8. "It Was You" (Karl Reid) – 3:50
  9. "Here I Am (More Than a Conqueror)" (Brooks) – 4:44
  10. "There's No Excuse (Reprise)" (Brooks) – 0:53

Personnel

Commissioned

Additional Musicians

Production

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References

  1. "allmusic.com Commissioned Charts and Awards". Allmusic.