Say You'll Be Mine (Amy Grant song)

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"Say You'll Be Mine"
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Single by Amy Grant
from the album House of Love
ReleasedOctober 10, 1994 (1994-10-10) [1]
Length4:04
Label A&M
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Keith Thomas
Amy Grant singles chronology
"House of Love"
(1994)
"Say You'll Be Mine"
(1994)
"Big Yellow Taxi"
(1995)

"Say You'll Be Mine" is a song by Christian music singer Amy Grant. [2] It was released as the second single from her 11th studio album, House of Love , in the United Kingdom in October 1994. Unlike the previous singles from House of Love, "Say You'll Be Mine" was not released in the United States. On her 2004 DVD release, Greatest Videos 1986-2004, Grant revealed that "Say You'll Be Mine" was planned as a US single, but the label pulled its release at the last minute. On the UK Singles Chart, the song reached number 41.

Contents

Music video

Grant recorded a music video for the song, which was aired in both the US and the UK. The original album version is available on the 2004 DVD Greatest Videos 1986-2004

Trakc listing

UK CD single

  1. "Say You'll Be Mine" (radio mix)
  2. "Life's Gonna Change"
  3. "Say You'll Be Mine" (album version)
  4. "Heart in Motion" (Medley mix)

Personnel

Charts

ChartPeak
position
Scotland (OCC) [3] 42
UK Singles (OCC) [4] 41

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References

  1. "Single Releases". Music Week . October 8, 1994. p. 25.
  2. Powell, Mark Allan (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music. Hendrickson Publishers. p. 377. ISBN   978-1-56563-679-8.
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